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G Spada1, S Pilati2,3, S Giorgini1
1Pitaevskii Center on Bose-Einstein Condensation, CNR-INO and Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Trento, 38123 Povo, Trento, Italy.
Abstract:
We study the thermodynamic behavior of attractive binary Bose mixtures using exact path-integral Monte Carlo methods. Our focus is on the regime of interspecies interactions where the ground state is in a self-bound liquid phase, stabilized by beyond mean-field effects. We calculate the isothermal curves in the pressure vs density plane for different values of the attraction strength and establish the extent of the coexistence region between liquid and vapor using the Maxwell construction. Notably, within the coexistence region, Bose-Einstein condensation occurs in a discontinuous way as the density jumps from the normal gas to the superfluid liquid phase. Furthermore, we determine the critical point where the line of first-order transition ends and investigate the behavior of the density discontinuity in its vicinity. We also point out that the density discontinuity at the transition could be observed in experiments of mixtures in traps.
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