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Coherence and Superfluidity of Gaseous Bose-Einstein Condensates

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Dynamics and Thermodynamics of Systems with Long-Range Interactions

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This paper gives a summary of the experimental production and the theoretical description of a gaseous Bose-Einstein condensate. We present the standard procedure to obtain a condensate: laser cooling, followed by evaporative cooling in a magnetic trap. We then turn to the theoretical treatment of an interacting Bose- Einstein condensate. We justify the use of a contact potential to describe atom interactions and we outline the derivation of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation. We then discuss experiments revealing the coherence properties of a single condensate, and the relative coherence between two independent condensates. Finally, we address the problem of the superfluidity of a condensate, by focussing on its rotational properties and the nucleation of quantized vortices.

Unité de Recherche de l’Ecole normale supérieure et de l’Université Pierre et Marie Curie, associée au CNRS.

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Dalibard, J. (2002). Coherence and Superfluidity of Gaseous Bose-Einstein Condensates. In: Dauxois, T., Ruffo, S., Arimondo, E., Wilkens, M. (eds) Dynamics and Thermodynamics of Systems with Long-Range Interactions. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 602. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45835-2_9

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