TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mendonça,J.T.
AU  - Terças,Hugo
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Physics of Ultra-Cold Matter: Atomic Clouds, Bose-Einstein Condensates and Rydberg Plasmas 
T2  - Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics,
SN  - 9781461454137
AV  - QC175.16.C6 
U1  - 539 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Springer New York, Imprint: Springer
KW  - Physics
KW  - Atoms
KW  - Matter
KW  - Phase transformations (Statistical physics)
KW  - Condensed materials
KW  - Condensed matter
KW  - Plasma (Ionized gases)
KW  - Low temperature physics
KW  - Low temperatures
KW  - Quantum Gases and Condensates
KW  - Low Temperature Physics
KW  - Plasma Physics
KW  - Atoms and Molecules in Strong Fields, Laser Matter Interaction
N1  - Introduction -- Laser Cooling -- Wave Kinetic Approach -- Atomic Clouds -- Waves and Oscillations in Clouds -- Photons in the Ultra-Cold Gas -- Bose Einstein Condensates -- Elementary Excitations in BECs -- Solitons -- Quantum Field Theory of BECs -- Superfluidity -- Rotating BECs -- Quantum Coherence -- Ultra-Cold Plasmas -- Physics of Rydberg Plasmas -- Waves in Rydberg Plasmas -- Kinetic Theory of Waves -- Conclusions -- Appendix
N2  - The advent of laser cooling of atoms led to the discovery of ultra-cold matter, with temperatures below liquid Helium, which displays a variety of new physical phenomena. Physics of Ultra-Cold Matter gives an overview of this recent area of science, with a discussion of its main results and a description of its theoretical concepts and methods. Ultra-cold matter can be considered in three distinct phases: ultra-cold gas, Bose Einstein condensate, and Rydberg plasmas. This book gives an integrated view of this new area of science at the frontier between atomic physics, condensed matter, and plasma physics. It describes these three distinct phases while exploring the differences, as well as the sometimes unexpected similarities, of their respective theoretical methods. This book is an informative guide for researchers, and the benefits are a result from an integrated view of a very broad area of research, which is limited in previous books about this subject. The main unifying tool explored in this book is the wave kinetic theory based on Wigner functions. Other theoretical approaches, eventually more familiar to the reader, are also given for extension and comparison. The book considers laser cooling techniques, atom-atom interactions, and focuses on the elementary excitations and collective oscillations in atomic clouds, Bose-Einstein condensates, and Rydberg plasmas. Linear and nonlinear processes are considered, including Landau damping, soliton excitation and vortices. Atomic interferometers and quantum coherence are also included
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5413-7
ER  -