Quantum gases

This chapter is in preparation.

Handouts

• Techniques for ultralow temperatures
  • Sub-Doppler and Sub-Recoil cooling
  • Magnetic trapping
    • Further reading: W. K., D.S. Durfee, D.M. Stamper-Kurn, Varenna Lecture Notes 1999, pp. 80-89
  • Evaporative cooling
    • Further reading:: W. Ketterle and N.J. van Druten, Adv. At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 37, 181-236 (1986). Relevant pages: pp. 181-193
    • Slides on magnetic trapping and evaporative cooling
• Bose-Einstein condensation
  • Further reading: Bose-Einstein Condensation in Dilute Gases, C.J. Pethick and H. Smith, selected pages
  • On Bogoliubov transformation and collective excitation: pp. 205-214
  • On nonlinear Schrödinger equation: pp. 146-156
  • On hydrodynamics: pp. 165-179
• Mott insulator transition
• Ultracold Fermi gases
  • Slides on MI transition and BEC-BCS crossover in ultracold fermions