| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 402 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 contemporary physics. The study of Bose-Einstein condensates in dilute gases encompasses a number of different subfields of physics, including atomic, condensed matter, and nuclear physics. The authors of this graduate-level textbook explain this exciting new subject in terms of basic physical principles, without assuming detailed knowledge of any of these subfields. 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. Problem sets are also included in each chapter |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Bose-Einstein condensation.
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SCIENCE -- Physics -- General.
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SCIENCE -- Mechanics -- General.
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SCIENCE -- Energy.
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Bose-Einstein condensation
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Verdünntes Gas
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Bose-Einstein-Kondensation
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Smith, Henrik
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| ISBN |
0511018703 |
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9780511018701 |
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9780511755583 |
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0511755589 |
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9780511033605 |
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0511033605 |
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9780511202179 |
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0511202172 |
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