Bose-Einstein Condensation [Paperback]

The first book devoted to BoseEinstein condensation (BEC) as an interdisciplinary subject.This book is devoted to BEC as an interdisciplinary subject, covering atomic and molecular physics, laser physics, low temperatures, and astrophysics. It will serve as an in-depth report on recent progress and will suggest promising research topics.This book is devoted to BEC as an interdisciplinary subject, covering atomic and molecular physics, laser physics, low temperatures, and astrophysics. It will serve as an in-depth report on recent progress and will suggest promising research topics.This book is devoted to BEC as an interdisciplinary subject, covering atomic and molecular physics, laser physics, low temperatures, and astrophysics, and it will serve as an in-depth report on recent progress and will suggest promising research topics for graduate students and researchers in physics.1. Introduction: Unifying themes of BoseEinstein condensation; Part I. Review Papers: 2. Some comments on BoseEinstein condensation; 3. BoseEinstein condensation and superfluidity; 4. BoseEinstein condensation in liquid helium; 5. Sum rules and BoseEinstein condensation; 6. Dilute degenerate gases; 7. Prospects for BoseEinstein condensation in magnetically trapped atomic hydrogen; 8. Spin-polarized hydrogen: Prospects for BoseEinstein condensation and two-dimensional superfluidity; 9. Laser cooling and trapping of neutral atoms; 10. Kinetics of BoseEinstein condensation in an interacting Bose gas; 11. Condensate formation in a Bose gas; 12. BoseEinstein condensation of excitonic particles in semiconductors; 13. Macroscopic coherent states of excitons in semiconductors; 14. BoseEinstein condensation in a nearly ideal gas: excitons in Cu2O; 15. Crossover from BCS theory to BoseEinstein condensation; 16. BoseEinstein condensation of bipolarons in high-Tc superconductors; 17. Kaon condensation in dense matter; 18. The bosonization method in nuclear physics; 19. Broken gauge symmetrl³