Thermodynamics of inhomogeneous imperfect quantum gases in harmonic traps

• Published in: Journal of statistical mechanics 2019-06, Vol.2019 (6), p.63101
• Main Authors: My liwy, Krzysztof, Napiórkowski, Marek
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• ISSN: 1742-5468; 1742-5468
• DOI: 10.1088/1742-5468/ab190d

We discuss thermodynamic properties of harmonically trapped imperfect quantum gases. The spatial inhomogeneity of these systems imposes a redefinition of the mean-field interparticle potential energy as compared to the homogeneous case. In our approach, it takes the form , where N is the number of particles, -the harmonic trap frequency, d-system's dimensionality, and a is a parameter characterizing the interparticle interaction. We provide arguments that this model corresponds to the limiting case of a long-ranged interparticle potential of vanishingly small amplitude. This conclusion is drawn from a computation similar to the well-known Kac scaling procedure, which is presented here in a form adapted to the case of an isotropic harmonic trap. We show that within the model, the imperfect gas of trapped repulsive bosons undergoes the Bose-Einstein condensation provided d  >  1. The main result of our analysis is that in d  =  1 the gas of attractive imperfect fermions with is thermodynamically equivalent to the gas of repulsive bosons with provided the parameters and fulfill the relation . This result supplements similar recent conclusion about thermodynamic equivalence of two-dimensional (2D) uniform imperfect repulsive Bose and attractive Fermi gases.