Theory of Bose-Einstein condensation in trapped gases

F Dalfovo, S Giorgini, LP Pitaevskii, S Stringari - Reviews of modern physics, 1999 - APS
Abstract The phenomenon of Bose-Einstein condensation of dilute gases in traps is
reviewed from a theoretical perspective. Mean-field theory provides a framework to …

Nobel Lecture: Bose-Einstein condensation in a dilute gas, the first 70 years and some recent experiments

EA Cornell, CE Wieman - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2002 - APS
Bose-Einstein condensation, or BEC, has a long and rich history dating from the early
1920s. In this article we will trace briefly over this history and some of the developments in …

[BUCH][B] Bose–Einstein condensation in dilute gases

CJ Pethick, H Smith - 2008 - books.google.com
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 …

[BUCH][B] Laser cooling and trap**

HJ Metcalf, P Van der Straten - 1999 - books.google.com
I Introduction.-1 Review of Quantum Mechanics.-1.1 Time-Dependent Perturbation Theory.-
1.2 The Rabi Two-Level Problem.-1.2. 1 Light Shifts.-1.2. 2 The Dressed Atom Picture.-1.2. 3 …

Making, probing and understanding Bose-Einstein condensates

W Ketterle, DS Durfee… - … -Einstein condensation in …, 1999 - ebooks.iospress.nl
The realization of Bose-Einstein condensation (BEe) in dilute atomic gases [1-5] achieved
several long-standing goals. First, neutral atoms were cooled into the lowest energy state …

Optical confinement of a Bose-Einstein condensate

DM Stamper-Kurn, MR Andrews, AP Chikkatur… - Physical Review Letters, 1998 - APS
Bose-Einstein condensates of sodium atoms have been confined in an optical dipole trap
using a single focused infrared laser beam. This eliminates the restrictions of magnetic traps …

Bose-Einstein condensation of molecules

S Jochim, M Bartenstein, A Altmeyer, G Hendl, S Riedl… - Science, 2003 - science.org
We report on the Bose-Einstein condensation of more than 105 Li2 molecules in an optical
trap starting from a spin mixture of fermionic lithium atoms. During forced evaporative …

History of optical trap** and manipulation of small-neutral particle, atoms, and molecules

A Ashkin - IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum …, 2000 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reviews the history of optical trap** and manipulation of small-neutral particles, from the
time of its origin in 1970 up to the present. As we shall see, the unique characteristics of this …

Dynamics and statistical mechanics of ultra-cold Bose gases using c-field techniques

PB Blakie, AS Bradley, MJ Davis, RJ Ballagh… - Advances in …, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
We review phase-space techniques based on the Wigner representation that provide an
approximate description of dilute ultra-cold Bose gases. In this approach the quantum field …

[BUCH][B] Ultracold quantum fields

HTC Stoof, KB Gubbels, D Dickerscheid - 2009 - Springer
On June 19th 1999, the European Ministers of Education signed the Bologna Declaration,
with which they agreed that the European university education should be uniformized …