Classical grand potential in a harmonic trap
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For noninteracting particles in a three-dimensional isotropic quantum harmonic oscillator, measure the one-particle ground energy as zero. The single-particle partition function is , from the product of three geometric series. In the dilute Maxwell–Boltzmann statistics regime, , so the grand potential is the displayed expression and . For ,The same approximation follows from integrating the density of states against . Extrapolating the classical formula until the fugacity is one gives the scale of Bose condensation in a three-dimensional harmonic trap, but the quantitative transition temperature requires the Bose occupation law rather than Maxwell-Boltzmann statistics.
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