Collective Excitations of Harmonically Trapped Ideal Gases

Abstract

We theoretically study the collective excitations of an ideal gas confined in an isotropic harmonic trap. We give an exact solution to the Boltzmann-Vlasov equation; as expected for a single-component system, the associated mode frequencies are integer multiples of the trapping frequency. We show that the expressions found by the scaling ansatz method are a special case of our solution. Our findings, however, are most useful in case the trap contains more than one phase: we demonstrate how to obtain the oscillation frequencies in case an interface is present between the ideal gas and a different phase.

4 pages, submitted to special issue of Eur. Phys. J. B "Novel Quantum Phases and Mesoscopic Physics in Quantum Gases"

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