Jul-Aug 2005 Lecture Series

Lecture Series on ``Modeling Bose-Einstein condensates''

Speaker: Dr. D. Jaksch, University Lecturer, University of Oxford

Time: 2.30--3.30pm on 27-29 July & 1-3 August, 2005

Venue: CZ Seminar Room, SOC1-07-14


Lecture Outline

Date	Lecture	Outline
27 July 2005 (Wednesday)	1	The Gross-Pitaevskii Equation (GPE) - Historical introduction - Derivation of the GPE - Number conservation
28 July 2005 (Thursday)	2	Excitations and Finite Temperature - The Bogoliubov transformation - Bogoliubov de-Gennes equations - Elementary excitations and collective oscillations
29 July 2005 (Friday)	3	Superfluidity and Kinetics of BEC - Hydrodynamic equations - The superfluid velocity - The quantum Boltzmann equation
1 August 2005 (Monday)	4	Atomic Collisions and Multi-component BEC - s-wave two atom collisions and contact potentials - Internal atomic structure - Multi-component GPE
2 August 2005 (Tuesday)	5	Cold gases in optical lattices - Optical lattice potentials - The breakdown of the GPE - Quantum phase transition to a Mott insulator
3 August 2005 (Wednesday)	6	Future experimental and theoretical prospects - BEC as a tool for quantum information processing - Molecular BE - 'Exotic' systems