Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
1999-10-27
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
Lecture notes for Les Houches summer school on coherent atom waves. The notes consist of 95 pages of LaTeX and 18 postscript f
Scientific paper
In this course we give a selfcontained introduction to the quantum field theory for trapped atomic gases, using functional methods throughout. We consider both equilibrium and nonequilibrium phenomena. In the equilibrium case, we first derive the appropriate Hartree-Fock theory for the properties of the gas in the normal phase. We then turn our attention to the properties of the gas in the superfluid phase, and present a microscopic derivation of the Bogoliubov and Popov theories of Bose-Einstein condensation and the Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer theory of superconductivity. The former are applicable to trapped bosonic gases such as rubidium, lithium, sodium and hydrogen, and the latter in particular to the fermionic isotope of atomic lithium. In the nonequilibrium case, we discuss various topics for which a field-theoretical approach is especially suited, because they involve physics that is not contained in the Gross-Pitaevskii equation. Examples are quantum kinetic theory, the growth and collapse of a Bose condensate, the phase dynamics of bosonic and fermionic superfluids, and the collisionless collective modes of a Bose gas below the critical temperature.
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