佩西克所著《稀化气体中的玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚(第2版)》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。

Preface

1 Introduction

 1.1 Bose-Einstein condensation in atomic clouds

 1.2 Superfiuid 4He

 1.3 Other condensates

 1.4 Overview

 Problems

 References

2 The non-interacting Bose gas

 2.1 The Bose distribution

2.1.1 Density of states

 2.2 Transition temperature and condensate fraction

2.2.1 Condensate fraction

 2.3 Density profile and velocity distribution

2.3.1 The semi-classical distribution

 2.4 Thermodynamic quantities

2.4.1 Condensed phase

2.4.2 Normal phase

2.4.3 Specific heat close to Tc

 2.5 Effect of finite particle number

 Problems

 References

3 Atomic properties

 3.1 Atomic structure

 3.2 The Zeeman effect

 3.3 Response to an electric field

 3.4 Energy scales

 Problems

 References

4 Trapping and cooling of atoms

 4.1 Magnetic traps

4.1.1 The quadrupole trap

4.1.2 The TOP trap

4.1.3 Magnetic bottles and the Ioffe-Pritchard trap

4.1.4 Microtraps

 4.2 Influence of laser light on an atom

4.2.1 Forces on an atom in a laser field

4.2.2 Opticaltraps

 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

 Problems

 References

5 Interactions between atoms

 5.1 Interatomic potentials and the van der Waals interaction

 5.2 Basic scattering theory

5.2.1 Effective interactions and the scattering length

 5.3 Scattering length for a model potential

 5.4 Scattering between different internal states

5.4.1 Inelastic processes

5.4.2 Elastic scattering and Feshbach resonances

 5.5 Determination of scattering lengths

5.5.1 Scattering lengths for alkali atoms and hydrogen

 Problems

 References

6 Theory of the condensed state

 6.1 The Gross-Pitaevskii equation

 6.2 The ground state for trapped bosons

6.2.1 A variational calculation

6.2.2 The Thomas-Fermi approximation

 6.3 Surface structure of clouds

 6.4 Healing of the condensate wave function

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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 0ptical lattices

15 Lower dimensions

16 Fermions

17 From atoms to molecules