Class syllabus

Usefull materials:

Interaction of light and atoms -- atom trapping:

• Helene Perrin's Les Houches notes (from her website): Part 1 Part 2
  
• Review article by Ketterle, Durfee, Stamper-Kurn: arXiv:cond-mat/9904034

Bose-Einstein condensation and superfluidity:

• Landau and Lifshitz "Statistical Physics Part 2"
  
• Pethick and Smith "Bose Einstein Condensation in Dilute Gases"
• D. M. Stamper-Kurn, A. P. Chikkatur, A. Gorlitz, S. Inouye, S. Gupta, D. E. Pritchard, and W. Ketterle PRL 83, 2876 (1999)

Response functions:

• David Pekker and Eugene Demler, Les Huches lecture notes "Competing instabilities in quench experiments with ultracold Fermi gases near a Feshbach resonance"

Lecture notes/slides

• Lecture 1: Intro to AMO physics, interactions of light and matter pdf key note
• Lecture 2: Atom cooling and trapping pdf key note
• Lecture 3: Spontaneous symmetry breaking and MFT pdf key note
• Lecture 4: Superfluidity pdf key note
• Lecture 5: More superfluidity pdf key note
• Lecture 6: Gross-Pitaevskii Equation pdf key note
• Lecture 7: Are superfluids super? pdf key note
• Lecture : Feshbach Resonance - Part 2 pdf
• Lecture : BEC BCS Crossover - Part 1 pdf
• Lecture : BEC BCS Crossover - Part 2 pdf
• Lecture : Majorana Zero Modes - Part 1 pdf
• Lecture : Majorana Zero Modes - Part 2 pdf
• Lecture : Majorana Zero Modes - Part 3 pdf
• Lecture : Majorana Zero Modes - Part 4 pdf