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The advent of laser cooling of atoms [1] led to the discovery of ultra-cold matter, with temperatures well bellow the liquid Helium, which displays a variety of new physical phenomena. It is the aim of this book to give an overview of this recent area of science, with a discussion of its main results and an description of its theoretical concepts and methods.
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Mendonça, J.T., Terças, H. (2013). Introduction. In: Physics of Ultra-Cold Matter. Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics, vol 70. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5413-7_1
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