BOSE-CONDENSATION AND RELAXATION EXPLOSION IN MAGNETICALLY TRAPPED ATOMIC-HYDROGEN

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作者
HIJMANS, TW [1 ]
KAGAN, Y [1 ]
SHLYAPNIKOV, GV [1 ]
WALRAVEN, JTM [1 ]
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[1] RUSSIAN RES CTR,IV KURCHATOV INST,MOSCOW 123182,RUSSIA
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PHYSICAL REVIEW B | 1993年 / 48卷 / 17期
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10.1103/PhysRevB.48.12886
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We predict and analyze nontrivial relaxational behavior of magnetically trapped gases near the Bose-condensation temperature T(c). Due to strong compression of the condensate by the inhomgeneous trapping field, particularly at low densities, the relaxation rate shows a strong, almost jumplike, increase below T(c). As a consequence the maximum fraction of condensate particles is limited to a few percent. This phenomenon can be called a ''relaxation explosion.'' We discuss its implication for the detectability of Bose-Einstein condensation in atomic hydrogen.
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