Quantum gases [[electronic resource] ] : finite temperature and non-equilibrium dynamics / / editors, Nick Proukakis ... [et al.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, : Imperial College Press |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (579 p.) |
Disciplina |
530.4/74
539 |
Altri autori (Persone) | ProukakisNick |
Collana | Cold Atoms |
Soggetto topico |
Cold gases
Quantum theory |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-299-46212-X
1-84816-812-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
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 Physics 1.4.6. 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; Acknowledgements 3. 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; Acknowledgements Part II. Ultracold Bosonic Gases: Theoretical Modelling |
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Quantum gases : finite temperatures and non-equilibrium dynamics / / editors, Nick Proukakis, Newcastle University, UK [and others] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, : Imperial College Press |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xxiv, 554 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina |
530.4/74
539 |
Collana | Cold Atoms |
Soggetto topico |
Cold gases
Quantum theory Gases - Thermal properties Phase transformations (Statistical physics) |
ISBN |
1-299-46212-X
1-84816-812-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
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 Physics 1.4.6. 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; Acknowledgements 3. 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; Acknowledgements Part II. Ultracold Bosonic Gases: Theoretical Modelling |
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Quantum gases : finite temperatures and non-equilibrium dynamics / / editors, Nick Proukakis, Newcastle University, UK [and others] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, : Imperial College Press |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xxiv, 554 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina |
530.4/74
539 |
Collana | Cold Atoms |
Soggetto topico |
Cold gases
Quantum theory Gases - Thermal properties Phase transformations (Statistical physics) |
ISBN |
1-299-46212-X
1-84816-812-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
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 Physics 1.4.6. 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; Acknowledgements 3. 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; Acknowledgements Part II. Ultracold Bosonic Gases: Theoretical Modelling |
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Quantum phase transitions / / Subir Sachdev [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Sachdev Subir <1961-> |
Edizione | [Second edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xviii, 501 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 530.4/74 |
Soggetto topico |
Phase transformations (Statistical physics)
Quantum theory |
ISBN |
1-107-21572-2
1-283-11216-7 9786613112163 1-139-07493-8 1-139-08174-8 1-139-07719-8 1-139-07946-8 0-511-97376-4 1-139-06916-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Machine generated contents note: Part I. Introduction: 1. Basic concepts; 2. Overview; Part II. A First Course: 3. Classical phase transitions; 4. The renormalization group; 5. The quantum Ising model; 6. The quantum rotor model; 7. Correlations, susceptibilities, and the quantum critical point; 8. Broken symmetries; 9. Boson Hubbard model; Part III. Non-zero Temperatures: 10. The Ising chain in a transverse field; 11. Quantum rotor models: large-N limit; 12. The d = 1, O(N >̲ 3) rotor models; 13. The d = 2, O(N >̲ 3) rotor models; 14. Physics close to and above the upper-critical dimension; 15. Transport in d = 2; Part IV. Other Models: 16. Dilute Fermi and Bose gases; 17. Phase transitions of Dirac fermions; 18. Fermi liquids, and their phase transitions; 19. Heisenberg spins: ferromagnets and antiferromagnets; 20. Spin chains: bosonization; 21. Magnetic ordering transitions of disordered systems; 22. Quantum spin glasses; References; Index. |
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Quantum phase transitions / / Subir Sachdev [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Sachdev Subir <1961-> |
Edizione | [Second edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xviii, 501 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 530.4/74 |
Soggetto topico |
Phase transformations (Statistical physics)
Quantum theory |
ISBN |
1-107-21572-2
1-283-11216-7 9786613112163 1-139-07493-8 1-139-08174-8 1-139-07719-8 1-139-07946-8 0-511-97376-4 1-139-06916-0 |
Classificazione | SCI055000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Machine generated contents note: Part I. Introduction: 1. Basic concepts; 2. Overview; Part II. A First Course: 3. Classical phase transitions; 4. The renormalization group; 5. The quantum Ising model; 6. The quantum rotor model; 7. Correlations, susceptibilities, and the quantum critical point; 8. Broken symmetries; 9. Boson Hubbard model; Part III. Non-zero Temperatures: 10. The Ising chain in a transverse field; 11. Quantum rotor models: large-N limit; 12. The d = 1, O(N >̲ 3) rotor models; 13. The d = 2, O(N >̲ 3) rotor models; 14. Physics close to and above the upper-critical dimension; 15. Transport in d = 2; Part IV. Other Models: 16. Dilute Fermi and Bose gases; 17. Phase transitions of Dirac fermions; 18. Fermi liquids, and their phase transitions; 19. Heisenberg spins: ferromagnets and antiferromagnets; 20. Spin chains: bosonization; 21. Magnetic ordering transitions of disordered systems; 22. Quantum spin glasses; References; Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790058503321 |
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Quantum phase transitions / / Subir Sachdev [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Sachdev Subir <1961-> |
Edizione | [Second edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xviii, 501 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 530.4/74 |
Soggetto topico |
Phase transformations (Statistical physics)
Quantum theory |
ISBN |
1-107-21572-2
1-283-11216-7 9786613112163 1-139-07493-8 1-139-08174-8 1-139-07719-8 1-139-07946-8 0-511-97376-4 1-139-06916-0 |
Classificazione | SCI055000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Machine generated contents note: Part I. Introduction: 1. Basic concepts; 2. Overview; Part II. A First Course: 3. Classical phase transitions; 4. The renormalization group; 5. The quantum Ising model; 6. The quantum rotor model; 7. Correlations, susceptibilities, and the quantum critical point; 8. Broken symmetries; 9. Boson Hubbard model; Part III. Non-zero Temperatures: 10. The Ising chain in a transverse field; 11. Quantum rotor models: large-N limit; 12. The d = 1, O(N >̲ 3) rotor models; 13. The d = 2, O(N >̲ 3) rotor models; 14. Physics close to and above the upper-critical dimension; 15. Transport in d = 2; Part IV. Other Models: 16. Dilute Fermi and Bose gases; 17. Phase transitions of Dirac fermions; 18. Fermi liquids, and their phase transitions; 19. Heisenberg spins: ferromagnets and antiferromagnets; 20. Spin chains: bosonization; 21. Magnetic ordering transitions of disordered systems; 22. Quantum spin glasses; References; Index. |
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Topological defects and the non-equilibrium dynamics of symmetry breaking phase transitions / edited by Yuriy M. Bunkov and Henri Godfrin |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Dordrecht : Kluwer Academic, c2000 |
Descrizione fisica | vii, 394 p. : ill. ; 25 cm |
Disciplina | 530.4/74 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
Bunkov, Yuriy M.
Godfrin, Henri |
Altri autori (Enti) | North Atlantic Treaty Organization.Scientific Affairs Division |
Altri autori (Convegni) | NATO Advanced Study Institute on Topological Defects and the Non-Equilibrium Dynamics of Symmetry Breaking Phase Transitions <1999 ; Les Houches, Haute-Savoie, France> |
Collana | NATO ASI series. Series C, Mathematical and physical sciences ; 549 |
Soggetto topico |
Broken symmetry (Physics) - Congresses
Phase transformations (Statistical physics) - Congresses Topology - Congresses |
ISBN | 0792362047 |
Classificazione |
LC QC793.3.S9
53.1.64 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNISALENTO-991002961559707536 |
Dordrecht : Kluwer Academic, c2000 | ||
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