Bose-Einstein Condensation (Paperback)

~ A. Griffin (Editor), D. W. Snoke (Editor), S. Stringari (Editor) "The paper reviews some important features of Bose-Einstein condensation such as the nature of the condensate, exchange interactions, phase locking..." (more)
Key Phrases: incoherent biexcitons, polariton condensate, excitonic superfluidity, New York, Low Temp, Solid State Comm (more...)

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"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

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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.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 620 pages
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press (July 13, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0521589908
• ISBN-13: 978-0521589901
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 6 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,903,794 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Concise slick book. Good but not great. , March 6, 2005

By	Mayer A. Landau (Rochester, NY) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Bose-Einstein Condensation (The International Series of Monographs on Physics) (Hardcover)

This is not an easy book to read. It starts off with field theory and assumes a lot of knowledge, especially from Landau's books on fluid mechanics and statistical physics. The format of the writing is concise, almost journal publication style. Chapter 14 on angular momentum and vortices is very slick and hard to follow. Chapter's 7 and 8 on response theory and 4He introduce a lot of notation and constructs without definition or motivation. Their discussion of mean field theory in BEC, derivation of the Gross-Pitaevskii from the operator formalism, and discussion of Fermi gases is clearer than in the BEC book by Pethick and Smith. There is also a discussion of optical lattices and low dimensions that is not discussed in Pethick and Smith. The other standard topics such as dynamics of a BEC in a harmonic trap are covered better in Pethick and Smith. Cooling is not discussed in this book.