SUBJECT

Title

Quantum gases I

Type of instruction

lecture

Level

master

Part of degree program
Credits

3

Recommended in

Semester 2

Typically offered in

Spring semester

Course description
  • Experiments with trapped ultracold bosons
  • Bose-Einstein condensation in external potential in the noninteracting model
  • Derivation and solutions of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation at zero temperature
  • Thomas-Fermi approximation for the condensate.
  • Density wave excitations for bosons, Bogoliubov equations for bosons
  • Quantum hydrodynamics for the excitations (for bosons)
  • The atomic laser
  • Vortices in quantum gases
Readings
  • Landau, L.D., Lifsic, I.M., Elméleti Fizika III, Kvantummechanika Tankönyvkiadó (1978)
  • Fetter A. L., Walecka J. D., Quantum theory of many-particle systems, McGraw-Hill (1971)
  • Haken, H., Wolf, H.C., The Physics of Atoms and Quanta – Introduction to Experiments and Theory, Springer (2005)
  • M. Inguscio, S. Stringari, C. E. Wieman (szerk.), Bose-Einstein Condensation in Atomic Gases, IOS Press (1999)
  • Theory of Bose-Einstein condensation in trapped gases , F. Dalfovo, S. Giorgini, L. P. Pitaevskii, and S. Stringari, Rev. Mod. Phys. 71, 463-512 (1999)