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BEC and the New World of Coherent Matter Waves
Allan Griffin
This paper is based on three tutorial lectures given at the CRM Summer School in Banff, Alberta, June 27-July 10, 1999 on "Theoretical Physics at the End of the Twentieth Century".…
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Dynamics of trapped Bose gases at finite temperatures
E. Zaremba, T. Nikuni, A. Griffin
Starting from an approximate microscopic model of a trapped Bose-condensed gas at finite temperatures, we derive an equation of motion for the condensate wavefunction and a quantum…
cond-mat1999
A Brief History of Our Understanding of BEC: From Bose to Beliaev
Allan Griffin
We review how our current ideas about BEC developed in the early period 1925-1965, which had the specific goal of understanding superfluid He. This history is presented by comm…