SUBJECT

Title

Quantum gases II

Type of instruction

lecture

Level

master

Part of degree program
Credits

3

Recommended in

Semester 3

Typically offered in

Autumn semester

Course description
  • Experiments with trapped ultracold fermions
  • BCS theory for trapped atomic gases, local density approximation, Feshbach resonances, gap.
  • Universality at the Feshbach resonance.
  • Density wave excitations, Bogoliubov-De Gennes equations for fermions at zero temperature.
  • Quantum hydrodynamics for density wave modes of fermions.
  • Phenomena in periodic trap potentials.
Readings
  • Theory of ultracold atomic Fermi gases,Stefano Giorgini, Lev P. Pitaevskii, and Sandro Stringari
  • Rev. Mod. Phys. 80, 1215 (2008)
  • L D Landau,E. M. Lifshitz, Quantum Mechanics, 3rd Edition (Non-Relativistic Theory), Elsevier (2013)
  • Fetter A. L., Walecka J. D., Quantum theory of many-particle systems, McGraw-Hill (1971)
  • Haken, H., Wolf, H.C., The Physics of Atoms and Quanta – Introduction to Experiments and Theory, Springer (2005)
  • Qijin Chen, Jelena Stajic, Shina Tan, Kathryn Levin, BCS-BEC Crossover: From High Temperature Superconductors to Ultracold Superfluids, Physics Reports 412, 1-88 (2005)