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The most commonly studied nonrelativistic boson system is liquid 4He, and in particular its superfluid phase. This, therefore, will be the principal focus of this chapter.
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The main problem is that the assumption of pairwise interactions fails badly for liquid helium.
Lars Onsager. Born Novemeber 27, 1903, Kristiania, Norway. Died October 5, 1976, Coral Gables, FL, Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1968.
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Stone, M. (2000). Nonrelativistic Bosons. In: The Physics of Quantum Fields. Graduate Texts in Contemporary Physics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0507-4_10
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