佩西克所著《稀化氣體中的玻色-愛因斯坦凝聚(第2版)》是一部關於稀化氣體中玻色－愛因斯坦凝聚的專著。早在1925年愛因斯坦便預言，氣態粒子在低溫下會在各方面處於同樣的量子狀態。1995年**利用強激光方法在實驗室中產生一種特殊的氣態，稱為玻色－愛因斯坦凝聚。這一凝聚在大尺度存在量子現像，並成為當代物理學中的一個*活躍的研究領域，涉及原子物理、凝聚物質物理和核物理。本書重點論述其基礎物理原理。

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