Bose–Einstein Condensation in Dilute Gases

by C. J. Pethick , H. Smith

• ISBN13: 9780521846516
• ISBN10: 052184651X
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781139637220
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-10-20
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Summary

Since an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate, predicted by Einstein in 1925, was first produced in the laboratory in 1995, the study of ultracold Bose and Fermi gases has become one of the most active areas in contemporary physics. This book explains phenomena in ultracold gases from basic principles, without assuming a detailed knowledge of atomic, condensed matter, and nuclear physics. This new edition has been revised and updated, and includes new chapters on optical lattices, low dimensions, and strongly-interacting Fermi systems. This book provides a unified introduction to the physics of ultracold atomic Bose and Fermi gases for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, as well as experimentalists and theorists. Chapters cover the statistical physics of trapped gases, atomic properties, cooling and trapping atoms, interatomic interactions, structure of trapped condensates, collective modes, rotating condensates, superfluidity, interference phenomena, and trapped Fermi gases. Problems are included at the end of each chapter.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

The non-interacting Bose gas

Atomic properties

Trapping and cooling of atoms

Interactions between atoms

Theory of the condensed state

Dynamics of the condensate

Microscopic theory of the Bose gas

Rotating condensates

Superfluidity

Trapped clouds at non-zero temperature

Mixtures and spinor condensates

Interference and correlations

Optical lattices

Lower dimensions

Fermions

From atoms to molecules

Appendix

Index

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