This is the first book devoted to boseeinstein condensation bec as an interdisciplinary subject, covering atomic and. The most common example of condensation is a cold glass of water on a hot day. The cold liquid is on the inside of the glass, but there are also beads of water on the. Pdf boseeinstein condensation in a gas of sodium atoms. This phenomenon, first predicted by einstein in 1925, has been realized experimentally in 1995 in a remarkable series of experiments whose importance has been recognized by the award of the 2001 nobel prize in physics. We construct a theory for boseeinstein condensation of light in nano fabricated semiconductor microcavities. Quantum degeneracy and boseeinstein condensation in low.
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Nucleation of quantized vortices in a gaseous bose. Fermi sea and boseeinstein condensate of lithium isotopes. Pdf on dec 8, 2005, franco dalfovo and others published bose einstein. Evidence of boseeinstein condensation in an atomic gas with attractive interactions phys. This phenomenon, named boseeinstein condensation bec, is a. Boseeinstein condensation in the relativistic ideal bose gas. The book is an introductory text to the physics of bose einstein condensation. Boseeinstein condensate plural boseeinstein condensates physics a gaseous superfluid phase of matter in which all the particles have the same quantum state. Boseeinstein condensation has been observed in several physical systems, but is not predicted to occur for blackbody radiation such as photons. Boseeinstein condensation of photons in an optical. Existence and long time behaviour of solutions for a. We designed and constructed a simplified experimental system to create a boseeinstein condensate in 87rb. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. The condensate is actually a new state of matter, where quantummechanical wave functions of atoms.
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