Course:
Statistical Physics of Cold Atoms
by Andrea Trombettoni
This course provides an introduction to the area of phenomena emerging from cold atom physics.
Main topics
- condensation for an ideal gas of bosons
- effects of the interaction: Bogoliubov theory of the Bose gas, shift of
the critical temperature
- condensate dynamics at T=0: collective oscillations
- two-component BECs
- BEC in optical lattices
- BEC in a rotating container: superfluidity, vortices, analogy with the
superfluid Helium
- BEC in a double well potential: Josephson oscillations, analogy with
superconducting Josephson juntions
- equilibrium properties of bosons in periodic potentials: quantum phase
transitions - Kosterlitz-Thouless transitions
- equilibrium properties of fermions in periodic potentials: analogy
with the Hubbard model
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