Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases:
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Main Author: Pethick, Christopher (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2002
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 402 pages)
ISBN:0511018703
0511755589
0521661943
0521665809
9780511018701
9780511755583
9780521661942
9780521665803

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