Chapter 7: Q. 7.57 (page 313)
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The derived equations are and.
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Chapter 7: Q. 7.57 (page 313)
Fill in the steps to derive equations and.
The derived equations are and.
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Consider a gas of identical spin-0 bosons confined by an isotropic three-dimensional harmonic oscillator potential. (In the rubidium experiment discussed above, the confining potential was actually harmonic, though not isotropic.) The energy levels in this potential are , where is any nonnegative integer and is the classical oscillation frequency. The degeneracy of level .
(a) Find a formula for the density of states, , for an atom confined by this potential. (You may assume .)
(b) Find a formula for the condensation temperature of this system, in terms of the oscillation frequency .
(c) This potential effectively confines particles inside a volume of roughly the cube of the oscillation amplitude. The oscillation amplitude, in turn, can be estimated by setting the particle's total energy (of order ) equal to the potential energy of the "spring." Making these associations, and neglecting all factors of 2 and and so on, show that your answer to part (b) is roughly equivalent to the formula derived in the text for the condensation temperature of bosons confined inside a box with rigid walls.
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