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Connecting Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless and BEC Phase Transitions by Tuning Interactions in a Trapped Gas.


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Authors

Fletcher, Richard J 
Robert-de-Saint-Vincent, Martin 
Man, Jay 
Navon, Nir 
Smith, Robert P 

Abstract

We study the critical point for the emergence of coherence in a harmonically trapped two-dimensional Bose gas with tunable interactions. Over a wide range of interaction strengths we find excellent agreement with the classical-field predictions for the critical point of the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) superfluid transition. This allows us to quantitatively show, without any free parameters, that the interaction-driven BKT transition smoothly converges onto the purely quantum-statistical Bose-Einstein condensation transition in the limit of vanishing interactions.

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Keywords

cond-mat.quant-gas, cond-mat.quant-gas, cond-mat.stat-mech, physics.atom-ph, quant-ph

Journal Title

Phys Rev Lett

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Journal ISSN

0031-9007
1079-7114

Volume Title

114

Publisher

American Physical Society (APS)
Sponsorship
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/K003615/1)
This work was supported by AFOSR, ARO, DARPA OLE, and EPSRC [Grant No. EP/K003615/1]. N. N. acknowledges support from Trinity College, Cambridge, R. P. S. from the Royal Society, and K. G. H. V. from DAAD.