SUBJECT
Title
Quantum gases II
Type of instruction
lecture
Level
master
Faculty
Part of degree program
Credits
3
Recommended in
Semester 3
Typically offered in
Autumn semester
Course description
- Experiments with trapped ultracold fermions
- BCS theory for trapped atomic gases, local density approximation, Feshbach resonances, gap.
- Universality at the Feshbach resonance.
- Density wave excitations, Bogoliubov-De Gennes equations for fermions at zero temperature.
- Quantum hydrodynamics for density wave modes of fermions.
- Phenomena in periodic trap potentials.
Readings
- Theory of ultracold atomic Fermi gases,Stefano Giorgini, Lev P. Pitaevskii, and Sandro Stringari
- Rev. Mod. Phys. 80, 1215 (2008)
- L D Landau,E. M. Lifshitz, Quantum Mechanics, 3rd Edition (Non-Relativistic Theory), Elsevier (2013)
- 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)
- Qijin Chen, Jelena Stajic, Shina Tan, Kathryn Levin, BCS-BEC Crossover: From High Temperature Superconductors to Ultracold Superfluids, Physics Reports 412, 1-88 (2005)