The Nobel Prize in Physics 2001

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  The Nobel Prize in Physics 2001  
 
Further reading
web site with animations, questions and answers etc.: www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/bec
The Bose-Einstein Condensate, by E.A. Cornell and C.E. Wieman, Scientific American, March 1998, p. 26.
Bose-Einstein Condensation, by Ch. Townsend, W. Ketterle and S. Stringari, Physics World, March 1997, p. 29.
Experimental Studies of Bose-Einstein Condensation, by D.S. Durfee and W. Ketterle, Optics Express Vol. 2, p. 299, 1998, web site: http://epubs.osa.org/opticsexpress
Bose-Einstein Condensation, edited by A. Griffin, D.W. Snoke and A. Stringari, Cambridge University Press, 1995.
 
 

Contents:
| Introduction – Atoms in unison | Particles or Waves? Both! | Cold… | …colder… | …coldest! | Large condensates and interference patterns | The atomic laser | Further reading | Credits |

Based on materials from the 2001 Nobel Poster for Physics
 

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