Bose-Einstein Condensation

This book is devoted to BEC as an interdisciplinary subject, covering atomic and molecular physics, laser physics, low temperatures, and astrophysics, and it will serve as an in-depth report on recent progress and will suggest promising research topics for graduate students and researchers in physics.

Table of Contents:
1. Introduction: Unifying themes of Bose–Einstein condensation; Part I. Review Papers: 2. Some comments on Bose–Einstein condensation; 3. Bose–Einstein condensation and superfluidity; 4. Bose–Einstein condensation in liquid helium; 5. Sum rules and Bose–Einstein condensation; 6. Dilute degenerate gases; 7. Prospects for Bose–Einstein condensation in magnetically trapped atomic hydrogen; 8. Spin-polarized hydrogen: Prospects for Bose–Einstein condensation and two-dimensional superfluidity; 9. Laser cooling and trapping of neutral atoms; 10. Kinetics of Bose–Einstein condensation in an interacting Bose gas; 11. Condensate formation in a Bose gas; 12. Bose–Einstein condensation of excitonic particles in semiconductors; 13. Macroscopic coherent states of excitons in semiconductors; 14. Bose–Einstein condensation in a nearly ideal gas: excitons in Cu2O; 15. Crossover from BCS theory to Bose–Einstein condensation; 16. Bose–Einstein condensation of bipolarons in high-Tc superconductors; 17. Kaon condensation in dense matter; 18. The bosonization method in nuclear physics; 19. Broken gauge symmetry in a Bose condensate; Part II. Brief Reports: 20. Bose–Einstein condensation in ultra-cold cesium: collisional constraints; 21. Bose–Einstein condensation and relaxation explosion in magnetically trapped atomic hydrogen; 22. Quest for Kosterlitz–Thouless transition in two-dimensional atomic hydrogen; 23. Bose–Einstein condensation of biexcitons in CuCl; 24. The influence of polariton effects on the Bose–Einstein condensation of biexcitons; 25. Light-induced Bose–Einstein condensation of excitons and biexcitons; 26. Decay of a non-equilibrium polariton condensate and the distribution functions of interacting polaritons in semiconductors; 27. Possibilities for Bose–Einstein condensation in positronium; 28. Excitonic superfluidity in Cu2O; 29. On the Bose–Einstein condensation of excitons – finite-lifetime composite bosons; 30. Charged bosons in quantum heterostructures; 31. The dynamic structure function of Bose liquids in the deep inelastic regime; 32. Evidence for bipolaronic Bose-liquid and Bose–Einstein condensation in high-Tc oxides; 33. Bose–Einstein condensation and spin waves; 34. Universal behaviour within the Nozières and Schmitt–Rink theory; 35. Bound states and superfluidity in strongly coupled fermion systems; 36. Onset of superfluidity in nuclear matter.

About the Author :
Allan Griffin works in theoretical condensed matter theory and is Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of Toronto He received his BSc (1960) and MSc (1961) from the University of British Columbia, and his PhD at Cornell University (1965). Dr Griffin has spent research sabbaticals at the KFA Julich (Germany), the Institut Laue-Langevin in Grenoble (France), Kyoto University (Japan), the University of Trento (Italy) and was a JILA Fellow at the University of Colorado (USA). His research has been on superfluid He4, superconductivity and theory of ultracold atoms. He has been a short-term visiting professor at the ANU in Canberra (Australia), the College de France in Paris, and the University of Otago (New Zealand). Dr Griffin is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (2003), a Fellow of the American Physical Society (2004), and received the Bronze Medal from the College de France (2001). He is the author of a monograph on Bose liquids (1993) and the editor of a well-known book on Bose-Einstein condensation (1995), both published by Cambridge.

Review :
"Bose-Einstein Condensation will be a valuable reference for both those in the field and those who want to understand the physics behind this fascinating new state of matter." Thomas Greytak, Physics Today