Bose-Einstein Condensation - NIST J. Research Special Issue

Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, 101(4), July-August 1996

Special Issue: Bose-Einstein Condensation (165 kB)

Keith Burnett, Mark Edwards, and Charles Clark, Editors

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Very Cold Indeed: The Nanokelvin Physics of Bose-Einstein Condensation (465 kB): Eric Cornell
Methods for a Nonuniform Bose Gas (135 kB): Kerson Huang and Paolo Tommasini
Theory of Interacting Quantum Gases (217 kB): H.T.C. Stoof, M. Bijlsma, and M. Houbiers
Generalized Mean Fields For Trapped Atomic Bose-Einstein Condensates (181 kB): N.P. Proukakis and K. Burnett
Effective Action Approach to Bose-Einstein Condensation of Ideal Gases (232 kB): Klaus Kirsten and David J. Toms
Cold Binary Atomic Collisions in a Light Field (272 kB): Paul S. Julienne
A Spectroscopic Determination of Scattering Lengths for Sodium Atom Collisions (517 kB): Eite Tiesinga, Carl J. Williams, Paul S. Julienne, Kevin M. Jones, Paul D. Lett, and William D. Phillips
Estimating Bounds on Collisional Relaxation Rates of Spin-Polarized ⁸⁷Rb Atoms at Ultracold Temperatures (1.5 MB): Frederick H. Mies, Carl J. Williams, Paul S. Julienne, and Morris Krauss
The Condensate Wave Function of a Trapped Atomic Gas (150 kB): F. Dalfovo, L. Pitaevskii, and S. Stringari
Approximate Solutions of the Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation for Ground and Excited States of Bose-Einstein Condensates (165 kB): R.J. Dodd
Zero-Temperature, Mean-Field Theory of Atomic Bose-Einstein Condensates (298 kB): Mark Edwards, R.J. Dodd, C.W. Clark, and K. Burnett
Aspect Ratio Analysis for Ground States of Bosons in Anisotropic Traps (128 kB): Kirill N. Ilinski and Alexander Moroz
Near-Resonant Imaging of Trapped Cold Atomic Samples (297 kB): L. You and Maciej Lewenstein
Atomic Phase Conjugation from a Bose Condensate (180 kB): Elena V. Goldstein, Katja Plättner, and Pierre Meystre
Why a Condensate Can Be Thought of as Having a Definite Phase (118 kB): S.M. Barnett, K. Burnett, and J.A. Vaccarro

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