A Brief History of Our Understanding of BEC: From Bose to Beliaev
| dc.creator | Griffin, Allan | |
| dc.date | 1999-01-13 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T03:12:37Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T03:12:37Z | |
| dc.description | We review how our current ideas about BEC developed in the early period 1925-1965, which had the specific goal of understanding superfluid $^4$He. This history is presented by commenting on the key contributions made by Einstein, Fritz London, Tisza, Landau, Bogoliubov, Oliver Penrose and Feynman. We emphasize the emergence of the concept of a macroscopic wavefunction describing the condensate. Starting with the fundamental work of Beliaev in 1957, the period 1957-1965 was a golden era for theoretical studies of interacting Bose-condensed gases. This work provided a sound conceptual basis for understanding the properties of trapped atomic gases which were discovered thirty years later. | |
| dc.description | Lecture given at the BEC Varenna Summer School, July 7-17, 1998. To be published in "Bose-Einstein Condensation in Atomic Gases", ed. by M.Inguscio, S.Stringari and C. Wieman (Italian Physical Society, 1999) | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9901123 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9901123 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/28976 | |
| dc.subject | Condensed Matter | |
| dc.title | A Brief History of Our Understanding of BEC: From Bose to Beliaev | |
| dc.type | text |