204410
Lecture
WiSe 12/13: Theory of Ultracold Quantum Gases
Axel Pelster
Additional information / Pre-requisites
students admitted to the Master's program
Comments
Inhalt:
- Low-temperature physics
- experimental cooling and measurement techniques
- basics of many-body theory
- Bose-Einstein condensation
- degenerate Fermi gases
- interaction between ultracold atoms
- Gross-Pitaevskii equation and Thomas-Fermi approximation
- Hartree-Fock theory
- Bogoliubov theory
- vortices and superfluidity
- Landau-Khalatikov two-fluid model
- Spinor Bose gases
- disorder
- BEC-BCS crossover
- optical lattices
- Bose-Hubbard model
- mean-field theory
Suggested reading
Literatur:
- L.P. Pitaevskii and S. Stringari, Bose-Einstein Condensation, Oxford Science Publishing (2003)
- C.J. Pethick and H. Smith, Bose-Einstein Condensation in Dilute Gases, Second Edition, Cambridge University Press (2008)
- A. Griffin, T. Nikuni, and E. Zaremba, Bose-Condensed Gases at Finite Temperatures, Cambridge University Press (2009)
- H.T.C. Stoof, K.B. Gubbels, and D.B.M. Dickerscheid, Ultracold Quantum Fields, Springer (2009)
- M. Ueda, Fundamentals and New Frontiers of Bose-Einstein Condensation, World Scientific (2010)
- M. Lewenstein, A. Sanpera, and V. Ahufinger, Ultracold Atoms in Optical Lattices - Simulating Quantum Many-Body Systems, Oxford University Press (2012)
15 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Mon, 2013-02-18 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2013-02-19 10:00 - 12:00
Wed, 2013-02-20 10:00 - 12:00
Thu, 2013-02-21 10:00 - 12:00
Fri, 2013-02-22 10:00 - 12:00
Mon, 2013-02-25 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2013-02-26 10:00 - 12:00
Wed, 2013-02-27 10:00 - 12:00
Thu, 2013-02-28 10:00 - 12:00
Fri, 2013-03-01 10:00 - 12:00
Mon, 2013-03-04 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2013-03-05 10:00 - 12:00
Wed, 2013-03-06 10:00 - 12:00
Thu, 2013-03-07 10:00 - 12:00
Fri, 2013-03-08 10:00 - 12:00