Paper 3, Section II, D
Part II, 2009
Consider an ideal Bose gas in an external potential such that the resulting density of single particle states is given by
where is a positive constant.
(i) Derive an expression for the critical temperature for Bose-Einstein condensation of a gas of of these atoms.
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(ii) What is the internal energy of the gas in the condensed state as a function of and ?
(iii) Now consider the high temperature, classical limit instead. How does the internal energy depend on and ?