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On Bose–Einstein Condensation and Unruh–Hawking Radiation from a Quantum Optical Perspective

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The use of quantum optical/laser physics techniques yields interesting insights into Bose–Einstein condensation and Unruh–Hawking radiation.

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This work was supported by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (Grant No. FA9550-20-1-0366 DEF), the Office of Naval Research (Grants No. N00014-20-1-2184), the Robert A. Welch Foundation (Grant No. A-1261), the National Science Foundation (Grant No. PHY-2013771), and Natural Science Foundation of Fujian (Grant No. 2021I0025), and W.U. thanks the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) (Grant 5-80441) and also thanks the TAMU Hagler Institute for Advanced Studies for their support, and the Humbolt Gesellshaft of Germany, and the Helmholtz Stifung for additional support while some of the research was done.

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  1. Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843, USA

    Marlan O. Scully, Anatoly Svidzinsky & William Unruh

  2. Baylor University, Waco, TX, 76798, USA

    Marlan O. Scully

  3. Xiamen University of Technology, Xiamen, 361024, China

    Anatoly Svidzinsky

  4. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, V6T 1Z1, Canada

    William Unruh

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Scully, M.O., Svidzinsky, A. & Unruh, W. On Bose–Einstein Condensation and Unruh–Hawking Radiation from a Quantum Optical Perspective. J Low Temp Phys 208, 160–171 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-022-02703-1

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