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Alexandre Dias Ribeiro
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2014
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Physics
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English
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Alexandre Dias Ribeiro
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The present article is concerned with the use of approximations in the calculation of the many-body density of states (MBDS) of a system with total energy E, composed by N bosons. In the mean-field framework, an integral expression for MBDS, which is proper to be performed by asymptotic expansions, can be derived. However, the standard second order steepest descent method cannot be applied to this integral when the ground-state is sufficiently populated. Alternatively, we derive a uniform formula for MBDS, which is potentially able to deal with this regime. In the case of the one-dimensional harmonic oscillator, using results found in the number theory literature, we show that the uniform formula improves the standard expression achieved by means of the second order method.
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