| Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 976365 | Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications | 2009 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
Microscopic bouncing balls, i.e., particles confined within a positive one-half-dimensional gravitational potential, display Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) not only in the thermodynamic limit but also in the case of a finite number of particles, and the critical temperature with a finite number of particles is higher than that in the thermodynamic limit. This system is different from the one-dimensional harmonic potential one, for which the standard result indicates that the BEC is not possible unless the number of particles is finite.
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Authors
T.G. Liu, Y. Yu, J. Zhao, J. Rao, X. Wang, Q.H. Liu,