Equivalence of the master equation approach to the canonical ensemble approach for an ideal Bose gas Academic Article

abstract

• A picture of the condensate statistics of a confined Bose gas, which is more relevant to recent experimental realizations, can be obtained by the canonical ensemble approach. Nevertheless, handling the particle number conservation condition entering therein is a formidable task. A recent method developed to deal with this problem is a non-equilibrium master equation approach based on the quantum theory of laser. We show here how the equilibrium solution of this master equation is faithful to the canonical ensemble. 2001 Published by Elsevier Science B.V.

authors

• Zubairy, Muhammad

published proceedings

• OPTICS COMMUNICATIONS

author list (cited authors)

• Kapale, K. T., & Zubairy, M. S.

citation count

• 3

complete list of authors

• Kapale, KT||Zubairy, MS

publication date

• May 2001

publisher

• Elsevier  Publisher

keywords

• Bose-einstein Condensation
• Canonical Ensemble
• Ideal Bose Gas
• Master Equation
• Quantum Theory Of Laser

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1016/S0030-4018(01)01140-3

start page

• 299

end page

• 304

volume

• 191

issue

• 3-6

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0030-4018(01)01140-3