The bulk correlation length and the range of thermodynamic Casimir forces at Bose-Einstein condensation

TL;DR

This paper investigates the relationship between the bulk correlation length and the decay length of thermodynamic Casimir forces near Bose-Einstein condensation in two models, revealing proportionality and critical exponents.

Contribution

It provides a microscopic analysis of the correlation and decay lengths, establishing their proportionality and critical exponents for perfect and imperfect Bose gases.

Findings

Both lengths diverge at the condensation point.

The lengths are proportional with specific factors depending on boundary conditions.

Critical exponents are 1/2 for perfect gas and 1 for imperfect gas.

Abstract

The relation between the bulk correlation length and the decay length of thermodynamic Casimir forces is investigated microscopically in two three-dimensional systems undergoing Bose-Einstein condensation: the perfect Bose gas and the imperfect mean-field Bose gas. For each of these systems, both lengths diverge upon approaching the corresponding condensation point from the one-phase side, and are proportional to each other. We determine the proportionality factors and discuss their dependence on the boundary conditions. The values of the corresponding critical exponents for the decay length and the correlation length are the same, equal to 1/2 for the perfect gas, and 1 for the imperfect gas.