Bose–Einstein Condensation in Dilute Gases

Introduction to ultracold atomic Bose and Fermi gases for advanced undergraduates, graduates, experimentalists and theorists.

C. J. Pethick (Author), H. Smith (Author)

9780521846516, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 11 September 2008

584 pages, 48 b/w illus. 74 exercises
25.4 x 17.8 x 3.1 cm, 1.28 kg

Review of the first edition: 'Bose-Einstein Condensation in Dilute Gases will be useful to newcomers to the field and will help researchers with diverse backgrounds communicate with each other. It is an excellent text, a broad survey with some in-depth discussions … an excellent text such as [this] is needed in these exciting times.' Physics Today

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.

Preface
1. Introduction
2. The non-interacting Bose gas
3. Atomic properties
4. Trapping and cooling of atoms
5. Interactions between atoms
6. Theory of the condensed state
7. Dynamics of the condensate
8. Microscopic theory of the Bose gas
9. Rotating condensates
10. Superfluidity
11. Trapped clouds at non-zero temperature
12. Mixtures and spinor condensates
13. Interference and correlations
14. Optical lattices
15. Lower dimensions
16. Fermions
17. From atoms to molecules
Appendix
Index.

Subject Areas: Atomic & molecular physics [PHM], Condensed matter physics [liquid state & solid state physics PHFC]