Friday, March 30, 2012

1203.6367 (Tomoki Ozawa et al.)

Stability of ultracold atomic Bose condensates with Rashba spin-orbit
coupling against quantum and thermal fluctuations
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Tomoki Ozawa, Gordon Baym
We study the stability of Bose condensates with Rashba-Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling in three dimensions against quantum and thermal fluctuations. The ground state depletion of the plane-wave condensate due to quantum fluctuations is, as we show, finite, and therefore the condensate is stable. We also calculate the corresponding shift of the ground state energy. Although the system cannot condense in the absence of interparticle interactions, we show by estimating the number of excited particles that interactions stabilize the condensate even at non-zero temperature. Unlike in the usual Bose gas, the normal phase is not kinematically forbidden at any temperature; calculating the free energy of the normal phase at finite temperature, and comparing with the free energy of the condensed state, we infer that generally the system is condensed at zero temperature, and undergoes a transition to normal at non-zero temperature.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1203.6367

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