Ultracold Quantum Gases

Student Seminar "Ultracold Quantum Gases" (NS-TP501M)

Lecturer: Rembert Duine

Question hours: on Wednesdays 13-17 in between the fortnightly sessions you can come by Rembert's office to ask about the exercises. Students preparing talks can always come by with questions.

Book (mandatory): C.J. Pethick & H. Smith, Bose-Einstein Condensation in Dilute Gases

See also the info here and here

NB: The talks before the Christmas break are 20 minutes per person

NB: The talks after the Christmas break are also 20 minutes per person

List of topics/speakers for after-Christmas sessions

The solutions to the exercises are thanks to Joost de Graaf.

Schedule

  Session Date (Wednesday 13:15 - 17, BBL 105b)   Topic/Plan   Reading Material   Exercises that are due:   Talks:
  19 September 2007 (1)   Introduction, experimental techniques, scattering theory & interactions   Book: chapter 1-5   ---   Slides
  3 October 2007 (2)   Gross-Pitaevskii equation, condensate dynamics   Book: chapter 6/7   Book: 2.2 & 7.3. This one and this one (courtesy of Kareljan Schoutens @ UVA). Solutions.   Rembert's slides, Carl's slides, Ingvar's slides, Martijn's slides, Ralph's slides
  17 October 2007 (3)   Bogoliubov theory   Book: chapter 8   This one and this one. Solutions.   Rembert's slides, Bas F.'s slides, Joost's slides, Matthijs's slides , Miriam's slides
  31 October 2007 (4)   Vortices & superfluidity   Book: chapter 9/10   These ones   Hedwig's slides, Valentina's slides, Xanthi's slides
  14 November 2007 (5)   Mixtures, spinor condensate, interference   Book: chapter 12/13   These ones. Solutions.   Rembert's slides, Bas K.'s slides, Chris's slides, Jasper's slides
  28 November 2007 (6)   Quantum phase transitions & the Mott-insulator to superfluid quantum phase transition   This paper, and this one. NB: pdf's can be downloaded only if you come from the uu.nl (or another subscribed) domain.   These ones. Solutions.   Rembert's slides, Alvaro's slides, Idan's slides, Kiril's slides
  12 December 2007 (7)   Fermionic atoms, BCS theory   Book: chapter 14   These ones. Solutions.   Arnold's slides, Bernd's slides, Dorien's slides, Olivier's slides
  9 January 2008 (8)   Student presentations   ---   ---   Carl's slides, Martijn's slides, Ralph's slides, Hedwig's slides, Joost's slides, Matthijs's slides
  Friday, 11 January 2008   Student presentations   ---   ---   ---
  Friday, 18 January 2008 !!! BBL 160, 9:30 AM !!!   Student presentations   ---   ---   Miriam's slides, Bas F.'s slides, Valentina's slides , Xanthi's slides, Bas K.'s slides, Chris's slides, Jasper's slides
  23 January 2008 (9)   Student presentations   ---   ---   Alvaro's slides, Idan's slides, Ingvar's slides, Kiril's slides, Arnold's slides, Bernd's slides, Dorien's slides , Olivier's slides
  Friday, 25 January 2008   Student presentations   ---   ---   ---