The distribution of the moment of inertia for harmonically trapped noninteracting Bosons at finite temperature: large deviations
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| contents | We compute the full probability distribution of the moment of inertia $I \propto \sum_{i=1}^N \vec{r}_i^{\,2}$ of a gas of $N$ noninteracting bosons trapped in a harmonic potential $V(r) = (1/2)\, m\, ω^2 r^2$, in all dimensions and at all temperature. The appropriate thermodynamic limit in a trapped Bose gas consists in taking the limit $N\to \infty$ and $ω\to 0$ with their product $ρ= N ω^d$ fixed, where $ρ$ plays the role analogous to the density in a translationally invariant system. In this thermodynamic limit and in dimensions $d>1$, the harmonically trapped Bose gas undergoes a Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) transition as the density $ρ$ crosses a critical value $ρ_c(β)$, where $β$ denotes the inverse temperature. We show that the probability distribution $P_β(I,N)$ of $I$ admits a large deviation form $P_β(I,N) \sim e^{-V Φ(I/V)}$ where $V = ω^{-d} \gg 1$. We compute explicitly the rate function $Φ(z)$ and show that it exhibits a singularity at a critical value $z=z_c$ where its second derivative undergoes a discontinuous jump. We show that the existence of such a singularity in the rate function is directly related to the existence of a BEC transition and it disappears when the system does not have a BEC transition as in $d \leq 1$. An interesting consequence of our results is that even if the actual system is in the fluid phase, i.e., when $ρ< ρ_c(β)$, by measuring the distribution of $I$ and analysing the singularity in the associated rate function, one can get a signal of the BEC transition in $d>1$. This provides a real space diagnostic for the BEC transition in the noninteracting Bose gas. |
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| spellingShingle | The distribution of the moment of inertia for harmonically trapped noninteracting Bosons at finite temperature: large deviations Kulkarni, Manas Majumdar, Satya N. Schehr, Gregory Statistical Mechanics Quantum Gases Mathematical Physics We compute the full probability distribution of the moment of inertia $I \propto \sum_{i=1}^N \vec{r}_i^{\,2}$ of a gas of $N$ noninteracting bosons trapped in a harmonic potential $V(r) = (1/2)\, m\, ω^2 r^2$, in all dimensions and at all temperature. The appropriate thermodynamic limit in a trapped Bose gas consists in taking the limit $N\to \infty$ and $ω\to 0$ with their product $ρ= N ω^d$ fixed, where $ρ$ plays the role analogous to the density in a translationally invariant system. In this thermodynamic limit and in dimensions $d>1$, the harmonically trapped Bose gas undergoes a Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) transition as the density $ρ$ crosses a critical value $ρ_c(β)$, where $β$ denotes the inverse temperature. We show that the probability distribution $P_β(I,N)$ of $I$ admits a large deviation form $P_β(I,N) \sim e^{-V Φ(I/V)}$ where $V = ω^{-d} \gg 1$. We compute explicitly the rate function $Φ(z)$ and show that it exhibits a singularity at a critical value $z=z_c$ where its second derivative undergoes a discontinuous jump. We show that the existence of such a singularity in the rate function is directly related to the existence of a BEC transition and it disappears when the system does not have a BEC transition as in $d \leq 1$. An interesting consequence of our results is that even if the actual system is in the fluid phase, i.e., when $ρ< ρ_c(β)$, by measuring the distribution of $I$ and analysing the singularity in the associated rate function, one can get a signal of the BEC transition in $d>1$. This provides a real space diagnostic for the BEC transition in the noninteracting Bose gas. |
| title | The distribution of the moment of inertia for harmonically trapped noninteracting Bosons at finite temperature: large deviations |
| topic | Statistical Mechanics Quantum Gases Mathematical Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.12247 |