Abstract
The work of an earlier paper on the ground-state properties of a system of bosons interacting via a strong short-ranged repulsive potential and a weak long-ranged attractive potential is extended to nonzero temperatures. The technique of temperature-dependent Green's functions is employed. It is shown that with the same restrictions on the two-body potential as imposed in the case of the ground state, it is possible to calculate in a consistent fashion the leading low-temperature contributions to the various thermodynamic functions. The results provide support for Landau's point of view for treating the system at low temperatures as a collection of noninteracting quasiparticles. The isotherms of the system at the low temperatures considered indicate a first-order transition between a phase with a condensate and one without a condensate, and also the possibility, at higher temperatures, of three phases.
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