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Title: Maxwell relation between entropy and atom-atom pair correlation

Abstract: For many-particle systems with short range interactions the local (same point) particle-particle pair correlation function represents a thermodynamic quantity that can be calculated using the Hellmann-Feynman theorem. Here we exploit this property to derive a thermodynamic Maxwell relation between the local pair correlation and the entropy of an ultracold Bose gas in one dimension (1D). To demonstrate the utility of this Maxwell relation, we apply it to the computational formalism of the stochastic projected Gross-Pitaevski equation (SPGPE) to determine the entropy of a finite-temperature 1D Bose gas from its atom-atom pair correlation function. Such a correlation function is easy to compute numerically within the SPGPE and other formalisms, which is unlike computing the entropy itself. Our calculations can be viewed as a numerical experiment that serves as a proof-of-principle demonstration of an experimental method to deduce the entropy of a quantum gas from the measured atom-atom correlations.
Comments: 6 pages, 2 figures
Subjects: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
Cite as: arXiv:2405.04159 [cond-mat.quant-gas]
  (or arXiv:2405.04159v1 [cond-mat.quant-gas] for this version)

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From: Karen Kheruntsyan [view email]
[v1] Tue, 7 May 2024 09:54:29 GMT (230kb,D)

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