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Volume 128, Number 5, December 2019
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| Article Number | 50002 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| Section | General | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/128/50002 | |
| Published online | 30 January 2020 | |
Bose-Einstein condensation in relativistic plasma
1 ICRANet- Minsk, Institute of Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus - 220072 Nezaležnasci Av. 68-2, Minsk, Belarus
2 Department of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics, Belarusian State University - 220030 Nezaležnasci Av. 4, Minsk, Belarus
3 ICRANet - 65122 Piazza della Repubblica, 10, Pescara, Italia
4 INAF – Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali - 00133 Via del Fosso del Cavaliere, 100, Rome, Italy
Received: 14 October 2019
Accepted: 12 December 2019
The phenomenon of Bose-Einstein condensation is traditionally associated with and experimentally verified at low temperatures: either of the nano-Kelvin scale for alkali atoms, or room temperatures for quasi-particles or photons in two dimensions. Here we demonstrate out of first principles that for certain initial conditions nonequilibrium plasma at relativistic temperatures of billions of Kelvin undergoes condensation, as predicted by Zeldovich and Levich in their seminal work. We determine the necessary conditions for the onset of condensation and discuss the possibilities to observe such a phenomenon in laboratory and astrophysical conditions.
PACS: 03.75.Nt – Other Bose-Einstein condensation phenomena / 52.25.Dg – Plasma kinetic equations
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