Bose-Einstein Condensation

Bose-Einstein Condensation
Author: Keith Burnett (Ed); Mark Edwar
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 213
Release: 1996-12
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ISBN: 0788137409

Among the most remarkable effects that quantum mechanics adds to the catalog of the thermal properties of matter is "condensation" of an ideal gas of identical particles into a single quantum state, the principle of which was discovered in the theory of statistical mechanics by Bose and Einstein in the 1920s. Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) is a mechanism for producing a macroscopic quantum system, and is exemplary of the macroscopic quantum phenomena of superconductivity and superfluidity.These 15 papers provide an introduction to current work on BEC.