{
  "id": "cond-mat/9812018",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "1998-12-01T18:51:32.000Z",
  "updated": "1998-12-01T18:51:32.000Z",
  "title": "Bose-Einstein vs. electrodynamic condensates: the question of order and coherence",
  "authors": [
    "E. Del Giudice",
    "G. Preparata"
  ],
  "comment": "6 pages",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.stat-mech"
  ],
  "abstract": "The remarkable recent experiments on ensembles of magnetically trapped ultracold alkali atoms have demonstrated the transition to a highly ordered phase, that has been attributed to the process of quantum-mechanical condensation, predicted long ago (1924) by Bose and Einstein. After having presented our argument against the above attribution, we show that the known phenomenology, including a discrepancy of about one order of magnitude with the predictions of Bose- Einstein condensation, is in good agreement with the electromagnetic coherence induced on the alkali atoms by the long range electrodynamic interactions. We also predict that for temperatures lower than a well defined $T_{BEC}$, the state predicted by Bose and Einstein coexists with the new coherent electrodynamic state.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "1998-12-01T18:51:32.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "electrodynamic condensates",
      "bose-einstein",
      "long range electrodynamic interactions",
      "coherent electrodynamic state",
      "magnetically trapped ultracold alkali atoms"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 6,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "1998cond.mat.12018D"
    }
  }
}