Selfgravitating bosons at nonzero temperature

Jun, 2000
21 pages
Published in:
  • Nucl.Phys.B 590 (2000) 575-595
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Abstract: (Elsevier)
A system of charged bosons at finite temperature and chemical potential is studied in a general-relativistic framework. We assume that the boson fields interact only gravitationally. At sufficiently low temperature the system exists in two phases: the gas and the condensate. By studying the condensation process numerically we determine the critical temperature T c at which the condensate emerges. As the temperature decreases, the system eventually settles down in the ground state of a cold boson star.
Note:
  • 21 pages, 11 figures included, revised, to appear in Nucl. Phys. B
  • 04.40.-b
  • 05.30.Jp
  • 11.10.Wx
  • Self-gravitating bosons
  • Boson star
  • Bose–Einstein condensation
  • boson: matter
  • boson: charged particle
  • finite temperature
  • potential: chemical