Bose–Einstein Condensation in Dilute Gases - Hardcover

Pethick, C. J.; Smith, H.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 052184651X ISBN 13: 9780521846516

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

Pethick and Smith provide a unified introduction to the physics of ultracold atomic Bose and Fermi gases for students, experimentalists and theorists alike. This book explains the phenomena in ultracold gases from basic principles, without assuming a detailed knowledge of atomic, condensed matter, and nuclear physics. This book provides chapters to cover the statistical physics of trapped gases, atomic properties, cooling and trapping atoms, interatomic interactions, structure of trapped condensates, collective modes, rotating condensates, superfluidity, interference phenomena, and trapped Fermi gases. Problems are included at the end of each chapter.

About this title

Book Description:

Providing a unified introduction to the physics of ultracold atomic Bose and Fermi gases, this new edition has been thoroughly revised and updated. It is ideal for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, as well as experimentalists and theorists. Problems are included at the end of 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 1966-69 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he joined the 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, 4He and superconductors) and astrophysics (particularly the properties of dense matter and the interiors of neutron stars). He is also the co-author of Landau Fermi-Liquid Theory: Concepts and Applications (1991).

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 052184651X
• ISBN 13: 9780521846516
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 584