Bose-Einstein condensates with dilute atomic gases: their superfluid properties, collective excitations, macroscopic coherence. Trapping and manipulating with periodical optical potentials; quantum interference phenomena, transport properties and the realization of new quantum phases of strongly correlated systems. Degenerate fermionic gases both non-interacting and strongly interacting; observation of fermionic superfluidity and the BEC-BCS cross-over.
Teaching Methods
Total hours of the course (including the time spent in attending lectures, seminars, private study, examinations, etc...):
75
Hours reserved to private study and other individual formative activities:
Contact hours for: Lectures (hours): 25
Further information
Office hours:
inguscio@lens.unifi.it
On appointment
Type of Assessment
Exam modality: oral examination
Course program
We will describe the Physics of Bose-Einstein condensates with dilute atomic gases discussing their superfluid properties, collective excitations, macroscopic coherence. We will present the new physics possible trapping and manipulating these systems with periodical optical potentials, including quantum interference phenomena, transport properties and the realization of new quantum phases of strongly correlated systems. We will describe the Physics of degenerate
fermionic gases both non-interacting and strongly interacting including the observation of fermionic superfluidity and the BEC-BCS cross-over.