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This is the first book devoted to Bose?Einstein condensation (BEC) as an interdisciplinary subject, covering atomic and molecular physics, laser physics, low temperature physics and astrophysics. It contains 18 authoritative review articles on experimental and theoretical research in BEC and associated phenomena. Bose?Einstein condensation is a phase transition in which a macroscopic number of particles all go into the same quantum state. It has been known for some time that this phenomenon gives rise to superfluidity in liquid helium but recent research has focused on the search for BEC in other condensed matter systems, such as excitons, spin-polarised hydrogen, laser-cooled atoms, high-temperature superconductors and subatomic matter. This unique book gives an in-depth report on progress in this field and suggests promising research topics for the future. It will be of interest to graduate students and research workers in condensed matter, low temperature, atomic and laser physics.

The first book devoted to Bose?Einstein condensation (BEC) as an interdisciplinary subject.

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1. Introduction: Unifying themes of Bose?Einstein condensation; Part I. Review Papers: 2. Some comments on Bose?Einstein condensation; 3. Bose?Einstein condensation and superfluidity; 4. Bose?Einstein condensation in liquid helium; 5. Sum rules and Bose?Einstein condensation; 6. Dilute degenerate gases; 7. Prospects for Bose?Einstein condensation in magnetically trapped atomic hydrogen; 8. Spin-polarized hydrogen: Prospects for Bose?Einstein condensation and two-dimensional superfluidity; 9. Laser cooling and trapping of neutral atoms; 10. Kinetics of Bose?Einstein condensation in an interacting Bose gas; 11. Condensate formation in a Bose gas; 12. Bose?Einstein condensation of excitonic particles in semiconductors; 13. Macroscopic coherent states of excitons in semiconductors; 14. Bose?Einstein condensation in a nearly ideal gas: excitons in Cu2O; 15. Crossover from BCS theory to Bose?Einstein condensation; 16. Bose?Einstein condensation of bipolarons in high-Tc superconductors; 17. Kaon condensation in dense matter; 18. The bosonization method in nuclear physics; 19. Broken gauge symmetry in a Bose condensate; Part II. Brief Reports: 20. Bose?Einstein condensation in ultra-cold cesium: collisional constraints; 21. Bose?Einstein condensation and relaxation explosion in magnetically trapped atomic hydrogen; 22. Quest for Kosterlitz?Thouless transition in two-dimensional atomic hydrogen; 23. Bose?Einstein condensation of biexcitons in CuCl; 24. The influence of polariton effects on the Bose?Einstein condensation of biexcitons; 25. Light-induced Bose?Einstein condensation of excitons and biexcitons; 26. Decay of a non-equilibrium polariton condensate and the distribution functions of interacting polaritons in semiconductors; 27. Possibilities for Bose?Einstein condensation in positronium; 28. Excitonic superfluidity in Cu2O; 29. On the Bose?Einstein condensation of excitons ?  finite-lifetime composite bosons; 30. Charged bosons in quantum heterostructures; 31. The dynamic structure function of Bose liquids in the deep inelastic regime; 32. Evidence for bipolaronic Bose-liquid and Bose?Einstein condensation in high-Tc oxides; 33. Bose?Einstein condensation and spin waves; 34. Universal behaviour within the Nozieres and Schmitt?Rink theory; 35. Bound states and superfluidity in strongly coupled fermion systems; 36. Onset of superfluidity in nuclear matter.

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