Selfinteracting Particle-Antiparticle System of Bosons

TL;DR

This paper investigates the thermodynamic behavior of a boson particle-antiparticle system with mean-field interactions, revealing a second-order phase transition to Bose-Einstein condensation at a critical temperature, with specific features of the condensate formation.

Contribution

It introduces a thermodynamically consistent mean-field model for interacting bosons and antiparticles, analyzing phase transition characteristics and condensate properties.

Findings

Second-order phase transition at critical temperature T_c

Condensate exists for the component with higher particle density

Discontinuity in heat capacity derivative at T_c

Abstract

Thermodynamic properties of a system of interacting boson particles and antiparticles at finite temperatures are studied within the framework of the thermodynamically consistent Skyrme-like mean-field model. The mean field contains both attractive and repulsive terms. Self-consistency relations between the mean field and thermodynamic functions are derived. We assume conservation of the isospin density for all temperatures. It is shown that, independently of the strength of the attractive mean field, at the critical temperature $T_{\rm c}$ the system undergoes the phase transition of second-order to the Bose-Einstein condensate, which exists in the temperature interval $0 \le T \le T_{\rm c}$. We obtained that the condensation represents a discontinuity of the derivative of the heat capacity at $T = T_{\rm c}$, and condensate occurs only for the component with a higher particle-number density in the particle-antiparticle system.