Bose condensation with power-law dispersion

ID: bose-condensation-with-power-law-dispersion

For a homogeneous ideal gas in dimensions with , the density of states scales as . At limiting chemical potential zero, the Bose-Einstein distribution is proportional to near zero energy. The excited-particle integral is finite exactly when . Thus positive-temperature condensation at fixed nonzero density is possible precisely for . A nonconserved particle number, as for ordinary equilibrium photons, removes the fixed-number saturation mechanism even when the integral is finite.

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