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Universal thermodynamics of a two-dimensional Bose gas

arXiv:1203.1788 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.85.063607

Abstract

Using renormalization-group arguments we show that the low-temperature thermodynamics of a three- or two-dimensional dilute Bose gas is fully determined by a universal scaling function $\calF_d(μ/k_BT,\tilde g(T))$ once the mass and the s-wave scattering length of the bosons are known ( is the space dimension). Here and denote the chemical potential and temperature of the gas, and the temperature-dependent dimensionless interaction constant is a function of . We compute the scaling function $\calF_2$ using a nonperturbative renormalization-group approach and find that both the and dependencies are in very good agreement with recent experimental data obtained for a quasi-two-dimensional Bose gas with or without optical lattice. We also show that the nonperturbative renormalization-group estimate of the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition temperature compares well with the result obtained from a quantum Monte Carlo simulation of an effective classical field theory.

17 pages, 18 figures, published version

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