Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases /
In 1925 Einstein predicted that at low temperatures particles in a gas could all reside in the same quantum state. This gaseous state, a Bose-Einstein condensate, was produced in the laboratory for the first time in 1995 and investigating such condensates has become one of the most active areas in c...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2002.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Bose-Einstein condensation in atomic clouds
- Superfluid [superscript 4]He
- Other condensates
- The non-interacting Bose gas
- The Bose distribution
- Density of states
- Transition temperature and condensate fraction
- Condensate fraction
- Density profile and velocity distribution
- The semi-classical distribution
- Thermodynamic quantities
- Condensed phase
- Normal phase
- Specific heat close to T[subscript c]
- Effect of finite particle number
- Lower-dimensional systems
- Atomic properties
- Atomic structure
- The Zeeman effect
- Response to an electric field
- Energy scales
- Trapping and cooling of atoms
- Magnetic traps
- The quadrupole trap
- The TOP trap
- Magnetic bottles and the Ioffe--Pritchard trap
- Influence of laser light on an atom
- Forces on an atom in a laser field
- Optical traps
- Laser cooling: the Doppler process
- The magneto-optical trap
- Sisyphus cooling
- Evaporative cooling
- Spin-polarized hydrogen
- Interactions between atoms
- Interatomic potentials and the van der Waals interaction
- Basic scattering theory
- Effective interactions and the scattering length
- Scattering length for a model potential
- Scattering between different internal states
- Inelastic processes
- Elastic scattering and Feshbach resonances
- Determination of scattering lengths
- Scattering lengths for alkali atoms and hydrogen
- Theory of the condensed state
- The Gross--Pitaevskii equation
- The ground state for trapped bosons
- A variational calculation.