Calculate the occupancy of the first excited state of a Bose-condensed system in a threedimensional harmonic trap.

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Calculate the occupancy of the first excited state of a Bose-condensed system in a threedimensional harmonic trap. Show that this state is not macroscopically occupied for any temperature, i.e., that the fraction of bosons in this state is always zero in the thermodynamic limit even when the ground state is macroscopically occupied.

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Statistical Mechanics

ISBN: 9780081026922

4th Edition

Authors: R.K. Pathria, Paul D. Beale

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