05243oam 2200589 450 991082247850332120190911112724.01-299-46212-X1-84816-812-8(OCoLC)845670370(MiFhGG)GVRL8REX(EXLCZ)99255000000101920520130828h20132013 uy 0engurun|---uuuuatxtccrQuantum gases finite temperatures and non-equilibrium dynamics /editors, Nick Proukakis, Newcastle University, UK [and others]London Imperial College Press ;Singapore Distributed by World Scientificc2013London :Imperial College Press,[2013]�20131 online resource (xxiv, 554 pages) illustrationsCold Atoms,2045-9734 ;1Description based upon print version of record.1-84816-810-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. 461-537) and indexes.Preface; Foreword; Participants of FINESS 2009 (Durham); Contents; Common Symbols/Expressions and their Meanings; Part I. Introductory Material; Editorial Notes; I.A. Quantum Gases: The Background; 1. Quantum Gases: Setting the Scene N.P. Proukakis & K. Burnett; 1.1. Introduction: Background to Quantum Fluids and Gases; 1.2. History of Non-Equilibrium and Finite-Temperature Pure BEC Experiments; 1.2.1. The Search for Idealised Systems: Spin-Polarised Hydrogen; 1.2.2. The Twist to an Unlikely Candidate: The Scene Opens up for Alkali Atoms; 1.2.3. Rival Candidates Gaining Ground?1.3. Modelling Quantum Degenerate Gases1.3.1. The Success of Phenomenology; 1.3.2. Ab Initio Modelling; 1.3.2.1. The Gross-Pitaevskii Equation; 1.3.2.2. Generalised Kinetic Theories; 1.3.3. Classical-Field and Stochastic Approaches; 1.3.4. Modelling Related Systems; 1.4. Unified Features of Quantum Gases; 1.4.1. Non-Equilibrium BECs and the Thermal Phase Transition; 1.4.2. Thermal and Quantum Fluctuations; 1.4.3. Quantum Phase Transitions and Disorder; 1.4.4. The Superfluid Fraction, its Relation to the Condensate and the Issue of Fragmentation; 1.4.5. Strongly Correlated Physics1.4.6. Ultracold Fermions1.4.7. Potential Applications; 1.4.8. Other Systems Exhibiting Condensation; Acknowledgements; I.B. Quantum Gases: Experimental Considerations; 2. Ultracold Quantum Gases: Experiments with Many-Body Systems in Controlled Environments P. Kruger; 2.1. Introduction; 2.2. Condensate Formation and Growth; 2.3. Excitations of Bose-Einstein Condensates; 2.4. Strongly Correlated and Phase-Fluctuating Systems; 2.4.1. Feshbach Resonances; 2.4.2. Optical Lattices; 2.4.3. Low-Dimensional Systems; Acknowledgements3. Ultracold Quantum Gases: Key Experimental Techniques S.A. Hopkins & S.L. Cornish3.1. Introduction; 3.2. Basic Experimental Techniques; 3.2.1. Overview; 3.2.2. Laser Cooling and Trapping of Atoms; 3.2.3. Magnetic Traps; 3.2.4. Dipole Traps; 3.2.5. Evaporative (and Sympathetic) Cooling; 3.2.6. Feshbach Resonances; 3.2.7. Manipulation and Visualisation; 3.2.8. Cold Molecules; 3.3. High-Level Techniques; 3.3.1. Interferometry; 3.3.2. Optical Lattices; 3.3.3. Rotation, Vortices, and Phase Imprinting; 3.3.4. Microtraps (or 'Atom Chips'); 3.3.5. Matter-Wave Lasers (or 'Atom Lasers')3.4. New Tools and Topical Areas3.5. Summary and Outlook; Acknowledgements; I.C. Quantum Gases: Background Key Theoretical Notions; 4. Introduction to Theoretical Modelling M.J. Davis, S.A. Gardiner, T.M. Hanna, N. Nygaard, N.P. Proukakis & M.H. Szymanska; 4.1. Introduction; 4.2. Second Quantisation; 4.3. Effective Interactions; 4.4. Broken Symmetry Versus Number Conservation; 4.5. Fluctuations and Degeneracy in Low Dimensions; 4.6. Periodic Potentials ('Optical Lattices'); 4.7. Fermionic Issues; 4.8. Feshbach Resonances; 4.9. Summary; AcknowledgementsPart II. Ultracold Bosonic Gases: Theoretical ModellingThe 1995 observation of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute atomic vapours spawned the field of ultracold, degenerate quantum gases. Unprecedented developments in experimental design and precision control have led to quantum gases becoming the preferred playground for designer quantum many-body systems.This self-contained volume provides a broad overview of the principal theoretical techniques applied to non-equilibrium and finite temperature quantum gases. Covering Bose-Einstein condensates, degenerate Fermi gases, and the more recently realised exciton-polariton condensates, it fills a gap Cold atoms ;v. 1.Cold gasesQuantum theoryGasesThermal propertiesPhase transformations (Statistical physics)Cold gases.Quantum theory.GasesThermal properties.Phase transformations (Statistical physics)530.4/74539Proukakis NickMiFhGGMiFhGGBOOK9910822478503321Quantum gases4038510UNINA