The quantum world of ultra-cold atoms and light.

Gardiner, C. W. 1942-

The quantum world of ultra-cold atoms and light. Book III, Ultra-cold atoms / Ultra-cold atoms Crispin Gardiner, Peter Zoller. - xxvi, 556 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - Cold atoms, vol. 5 2045-9734 ; . - Cold atoms ; v. 5. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 519-542) and index.

Foundations: The Quest for Cold Atoms ; Statistical Mechanics of an Ultra-Cold Gas ; The Effective Hamiltonian for an Ultra-Cold Gas -- Bose-Einstein Condensation: Pure Bose-Einstein Condensates ; The Bogoliubov Theory ; The Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov Method ; Coherence, Correlations and Condensation -- Quantum Kinetic Theory: Quantum Kinetic Theory of Homogeneous Systems ; The Quantum Boltzmann Equation ; Quantum Kinetic Master Equations ; The Stochastic Gross-Pitaevskii Equation ; Growth of a Bose-Einstein Condensate -- Quantum Matter Waves: The Hydrodynamic Approximation ; Vortices in Bose Systems ; Quantum Matter Wave Dynamics -- Ultra-Cold Molecules And Scattering: Scattering Theory at Very Low Energies ; Modelling the Interatomic Interaction ; Effective Field Theory ; Atom-Molecule Systems ; Field Theory of Feshbach Resonances -- Ultra-Cold Fermions: The Fermi Gas ; The Superfluid Fermi Gas -- Atoms in Optical Lattices: Bose Atoms in an Optical Lattice ; The Cold Atom Lattice Toolbox ; Engineering Lattice Electromagnetism.

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Quantum optics.
Low temperatures.
Light.
Bose-Einstein condensation.
Bosons.
Fermions.
Stochastic processes.