A Thermodynamic Approach to the Ideal Bose-Einstein Gas and Condensate
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Abstract
I use the quantum statistics of massive bosons and the "average energy approximation" to derive thermodynamic equations of state of an ideal Bose-Einstein gas. This thermodynamic accurately describes the main features of a Bose-Einstein gas as well as of a phase transition to a condensed state.
Publication: A paper with the same title and abstract has been submitted to the American Journal of Physics. However, I do not wish this to be advertised as AJP now uses double-blind reviewing.
Presenters
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Don S Lemons
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Authors
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Don S Lemons
Los Alamos National Laboratory