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a r X i v : c o n d - m a t / 0 4 0 5 4 6 0 v 1 [ c o n d - m a t .o t h e r ] 1 9 M a y 2 0 0 4 UNLV-HiPSEC-M04-01 Condensate-profile asymmetry of a boson mixture in a disk-shaped harmonic trap Hong Ma and Tao Pang Department of Physics, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada 89154-4002 A mixture of two types of hard-sphere bosons in a disk-shaped harmonic trap is studied through path-integral quantum Monte Carlo simulation at low temperature. We find that the system can undergo a phase transition to break the spatial symmetry of the model Hamiltonian when some of the model parameter