Key points are not available for this paper at this time.
We examine the time evolution of a weakly interacting Bose gas in the course of the Bose-Einstein phase transition and show that, in contrast with previous claims in the literature, the relevant time scale for the appearance of the condensate is finite and, under the conditions we consider, of O (/k₁T₂), which is very small compared to the characteristic lifetime of the system due to inelastic collisions in the gas.
H. T. C. Stoof (Mon,) studied this question.