Experiments in Dilute Atomic Bose-Einstein Condensation
arXiv:cond-mat/9903109
Abstract
Both theoretical and experimental activity in BEC has expanded dramatically in the three years since the first observation of BEC in a dilute atomic gas. One is tempted to ask, why? Why is there so much interest in the field? Is this burst of activity something that could have been foreseen, in, say, 1990?
54 pages, 8 figures; to be published in the proceedings of the Varenna conference on Bose-Einstein condensation, July 1998