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Bose-Einstein condensation of atomic gases

J. Dalibard

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This chapter presents an overview of the specific experimental tools developed in the field of ultra-cold gases to achieve and probe superfluidity in vapours of bosonic atoms. First, it describes the main cooling techniques: the magneto-optical trap, which brings an atomic vapour from room temperature down to the sub-mK range, and the evaporative cooling scheme, which bridges the gap to the superfluid regime. It then proceeds to the study of interaction effects. It shows that these play a central role in the understanding of both static and dynamic properties of trapped Bose–Einstein condensates (BECs), despite the dilute character of these gases. As a consequence, gaseous BECs and superfluid helium obey the same laws of hydrodynamics and exhibit similar dynamical properties, although their densities differ by several orders of magnitude. The third section is devoted to the coherence properties of gaseous BECs. It shows that, by contrast with liquid helium, specific features of ultra-cold gases make them suitable for a direct probing of the quantum coherence associated with Bose–Einstein condensation. Finally, the possibility of tailoring trapping potentials and realizing low-dimensional systems is discussed, where one or two directions of motion are frozen.
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hal-03744424 , version 1 (02-08-2022)

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F. Chevy, J. Dalibard. Bose-Einstein condensation of atomic gases. Bennemann, Karl Heinz and Ketterson, John Boyd. Novel superfluids, 156, Oxford university press, pp.398--428, 2013, International series of monographs on physics, 978-0-19-958591-5. ⟨hal-03744424⟩
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