Maxwell's Demon at work: Two types of Bose condensate fluctuations in power-law traps

Optics Express

Volumn 1, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 262-271

  Grossmann, Siegfried ^a   Holthaus, Martin ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; CONDENSATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; GAS DYNAMICS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOLUTIONS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

BOSE CONDENSATION; MICROCANONICAL FLUCTUATION; POWER-LAW TRAPS;

STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

EID: 0004580082     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.1.000262     Document Type: Article

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