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Cold Atoms Beyond Atomic Physics

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In the last 25 years, much progress has been made producing and controlling Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) and degenerate Fermi gases. The advances in trapping, cooling, and tuning the interparticle interactions in these cold atom systems lead to an unprecedented amount of control that one can exert over them. This work aims to show that knowledge acquired studying cold atom systems can be applied to other fields that share similarities and analogies with them, provided that the differences are also known and taken into account. We focus on two specific fields: nuclear physics and statistical optics. The nuclear physics discussion occurs with the BCS-BEC crossover in mind, in which we compare cold Fermi gases with nuclear and neutron matter and nuclei. We connect BECs and atom lasers through both systems’ matter-wave character for the analogy with statistical optics. Finally, we present some challenges that, if solved, would increase our understanding of cold atom systems and, thus, the related areas.

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  1. The challenge proposed by Bertsch to the participants of the Tenth International Conference on Recent Progress in Many-Body Theories can be stated as: what are the ground state properties of the many-body system composed of spin-1/2 fermions interacting via a zero-range, infinite scattering length contact interaction?

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Acknowledgments

At first glance, the parallel between BECs and statistical optics may seem slightly out of place. However, one of the authors of Ref. [13] is Mahir Saleh Hussein. Two of his greatest interests were nuclear physics and Bose-Einstein condensation [117]. Since this is a special issue in his honor, we thought this two-fold tribute would be appropriate.

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This work was supported by the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) under the grants 2013/07276-1, 2014/50857-8, and 2018/09191-7, and by the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) under the grant 465360/2014-9.

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Madeira, L., Bagnato, V.S. Cold Atoms Beyond Atomic Physics. Braz J Phys 51, 170–180 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13538-020-00805-3

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