Synopses & Reviews
An up-to-date and detailed graduate-level introduction to the theory and experimental formation of Bose-Einstein condensates.
Review
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"The authors' clear writing style and balanced choice of topics will appeal to a diverse audience." Physics Today"An excellent and much-needed text." Nature
Synopsis
Since the experimental discovery in 1995 of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute atomic gases, investigating such condensates has become one of the most active areas in contemporary physics. Intended for graduate-level students and researchers, this textbook (complete with problem sets) provides an up-to-date and detailed introduction to this exciting new subject.
Synopsis
Since the recent experimental discovery of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute atomic gases, 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. Problem sets are included in each chapter.
About the Author
Christopher Pethick graduated with a D.Phil. in 1965 from the University of Oxford, and he had a research fellowship there until 1970. During the years 1966-1969 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he joined the teaching faculty in 1970, becoming Professor of Physics in 1973. Following periods spent at the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Moscow and at Nordita (Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics), Copenhagen, as a visiting scientist, he accepted a permanent position at Nordita in 1975, and divided his time for many years between Nordita and the University of Illinois. Apart from the subject of the present book, Professor Pethick's main research interests are condensed matter physics (quantum liquids, especially 3He and 4He and superconductors) and astrophysics (particularly the properties of dense matter and the interiors of neutron stars). He is also the co-author of Fermi Liquid Theory: Concepts and Applications (1991).Henrik Smith obtained his mag. scient. degree in 1966 from the University of Copenhagen and spent the next few years as a postdoctoral fellow at Cornell University and as a visiting scientist at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, Helsinki. In 1972 he moved to the University of Copenhagen where he is now a professor at the Oersted Laboratory. He has also worked as a guest scientist at the Bell Laboratories, New Jersey. Professor Smith's research field is condensed matter physics and low-temperature physics including quantum liquids and the properties of superfluid 3He, transport properties of normal and superconducting metals, and two-dimensional electron systems. His other books include Transport Phenomena (1989) and Introduction to Quantum Mechanics (1991).
Table of Contents
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. Fermions; Appendix. Fundamental constants; Index.