Quantum World of Ultra-Cold Atoms and Light, the - Book III: Ultra-Cold Atoms (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781786344175)

This century has seen the development of technologies for manipulating and controlling matter and light at the level of individual photons and atoms, a realm in which physics is fully quantum-mechanical. The dominant experimental technology is the laser, and the theoretical paradigm is quantum optics.The Quantum World of Ultra-Cold Atoms and Light is a trilogy, which presents the quantum optics way of thinking and its applications to quantum devices. This book -- 'Ultra-Cold Atoms' -- provides a theoretical treatment of ultra-cold Bosons and Fermions and their interactions with electromagnetic fields in a form consistent with the first two books in the trilogy.The central concept is the quantum stochastic paradigm, formulated for cold collision physics. For Bosons, this yields a suite of techniques; versions of the stochastic Gross-Pitaevskii equation, using which a wide range of dynamic and thermal properties are formulated.The eBook editions of the 'Quantum World Trilogy' feature an extensive system of hyperlinks for ease of cross reference within the books, as well as links to the other books in the trilogy. In the section Viewing the eBooks we explain how these links work, and give some advice on appropriate pdf viewer applications.

Author: Crispin W. Gardiner, Peter Zoller
ISBN-10: 1786344173
ISBN-13: 9781786344175
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Europe Ltd
Language: English
Published: 10/24/2017
Pages: 584
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.08lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.25d