稀化气体中的玻色——爱因斯坦凝聚（英文版）

    本书是一部关于稀化气体中玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚的专著。早在1925年爱因斯坦便预言，气态粒子在低温下会在各方面处于同样的量子状态。1995年首次利用强激光方法在实验室中产生一种特殊的气态，称为玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚。这一凝聚在大尺度存在量子现象，并成为当代物理学中的一个最活跃的研究领域，涉及原子物理、凝聚物质物理和核物理。本书重点论述其基础物理原理。全书共14章，每章末附有问题和参考文献，书末附有基本常数和转换因数的附录。本书适用于高校物理系及相关专业的教师、研究生和从事新物态及相关研究的科研工作者。

Preface
1 Introduction
1.1 Bose-Einstein condensation in atomic clouds
1.2 Superfluid 4 He
1.3 Other condensates
1.4 Overviwe
2 The non-interacting Bose gas
2.1 The Bose distribution
2.2 Transition temperature and condensate fraction
2.3 Density profile and velcity distribution
2.4 Thermodynamic quantities
2.5 Effect of finite particle number
2.6 Lower-dinmensional systems
3 Atomic properties
3.1 Atomic structure
3.2 The Zeeman effect
3.3 Response to an electric field
3.4 Energy scales
4 Trapping and cooling of atoms
4.1 Magnetic traps
4.2 Influence of laser light on an atom
4.3 Laser cooling:the Doppler process
4.4 The magneto-optical trap
4.5 Sisyphus cooling
4.6 Evaporative cooling
4.7 Spin-polarized hydrogen
5 Interactions between atoms
5.1 Interatomic potentials and the van der Waals interaction
5.2 Basic scattering theory
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6 Theory of the condensed state
7 Dynamics of the condensate
8 Microscopic theory of the Bose gas
9 Rotating condensates
10 Superfluidity
11 Trapped clouds at non-zero temperature
12 Mixtures and spinor condensates
13 Interference and correlations
14 Fermions
Appendix.Fundamental constants and conversion factors
Index

The experimental discovery of Bose-Einstein condensation in trapped atomic clouds opened up the exploration of quantum phenomena in a qualitatively new regime. Our aim in the present work is to provide an introduction to this rapidly developing field. . The study of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases draws on many different subfields of physics. Atomic physics provides the basic methods for creating and manipulating these systems, and the physical data required to characterize them. Because interactions between atoms play a key role..