Phase transition dimensionality crossover from two to three dimensions in a trapped ultracold atomic Bose gas

The equilibrium properties of a weakly interacting atomic Bose gas across the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) and Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) phase transitions are numerically investigated through a dimensionality crossover from two to three dimensions. The crossover is realised by confining the gas in an experimentally feasible hybridised trap which provides homo-geneity along the planar xy -directions through a box potential in tandem with a harmonic transverse potential along the transverse z -direction. The dimensionality is modified by varying the frequency of the harmonic trap from tight to loose transverse trapping. Our findings, based on a stochastic (projected) Gross-Pitaevskii equation, showcase a continuous shift in the character of the phase transition from BKT to BEC, and a monotonic increase of the identified critical temperature as a function of dimensionality, with the strongest variation exhibited for small chemical potential values up to approximately twice the transverse confining potential.

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