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We predict and analyze nontrivial relaxational behavior of magnetically trapped gases near the Bose-condensation temperature T₂. Due to strong compression of the condensate by the inhomogeneous trapping field, particularly at low densities, the relaxation rate shows a strong, almost jumplike, increase below T₂. As a consequence the maximum fraction of condensate particles is limited to a few percent. This phenomenon can be called a ``relaxation explosion. '' We discuss its implication for the detectability of Bose-Einstein condensation in atomic hydrogen.
Hijmans et al. (Mon,) studied this question.