Bose-Condensed Gases at Finite Temperatures.

The first treatment of BoseEinstein condensation at finite temperatures for researchers and graduate students in atomic, molecular and optical physics.

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Main Author: Griffin, Allan
Other Authors: Nikuni, Tetsuro, Zaremba, Eugene
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 Overview and introduction; 2 Condensate dynamics at T = 0; 3 Coupled equations for the condensate and thermal cloud; 4 Green's functions and self-energy approximations; 5 The Beliaev and the time-dependent HFB approximations; 6 Kadanoff-Baym derivation of the ZNG equations; 7 Kinetic equation for Bogoliubov thermal excitations; 8 Static thermal cloud approximation; 9 Vortices and vortex lattices at finite temperatures; 10 Dynamics at finite temperatures using the moment method; 11 Numerical simulation of the ZNG equations.
  • 12 Simulation of collective modes at finite temperature13 Landau damping in trapped Bose-condensed gases; 14 Landau's theory of superfluidity; 15 Two-fluid hydrodynamics in a dilute Bose gas; 16 Variational formulation of the Landau two-fluid equations; 17 The Landau-Khalatnikov two-fluid equations; 18 Transport coefficients and relaxation times; 19 General theory of damping of hydrodynamic modes; Appendix A Monte Carlo calculation.