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Superfluidity and Bose-Einstein Condensation - NFPL178
Title: Supratekutost a Boseova-Einsteinova kondenzace
Guaranteed by: Department of Low Temperature Physics (32-KFNT)
Faculty: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Actual: from 2019
Semester: summer
E-Credits: 5
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/1, C+Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Guarantor: prof. RNDr. Ladislav Skrbek, DrSc.
Annotation -
Last update: KFNTLS/MFF.CUNI.CZ (29.04.2008)
Phase diagrams and basic properties of 4 He and 3He. Superfluid He II- two fluid model, collective modes, fountain effect, superfluid film, energy spectrum, macroscopic wave function, quantization of circulation- quantized vortices, superfluid hydrodynamics and turbulence. Superfluid 3He - basic ideas of generalized BCS theory, order parameter for the A, B and A1 phases, textures, orienting forces, NMR, phase-slips and Josephson phenomena in 3He, rotating 3He-continuous and singular vortices. BEC - hydrogen, alcali atoms, experiments, principles of laser cooling, BEC and superfluidity.
Aim of the course -
Last update: KFNTLS/MFF.CUNI.CZ (29.04.2008)

The aim of the course is to explain basic principles of the Bose - Einstein condensation in 3d momentum space. The accent is on experiments that unequivocally confirm this phenomenon, and on physical properties of superfluid phases of 3He and 4He.

Course completion requirements - Czech
Last update: doc. RNDr. Vojtěch Chlan, Ph.D. (12.06.2019)

Zkouška probíhá ústní formou. Požadavky ke zkoušce odpovídejí sylabu předmětu v rozsahu, který byl prezentován na přednášce.

Syllabus -
Last update: T_KFNT (02.05.2003)

Basic properties of 4 He and 3He, liquifaction of 4He, Fermi-Dirac and Bose - Einstein quantum statistics. Ideal Bose gas, Bose - Einstein condensation (BEC). Ideal Fermi gas, Fermi liquid, zero sound. Phase diagrams of 4He a 3He, zero oscillations. 3He-4He mixtures, dilution refrigerator.

Superfluid He II - Fountain effect, mechano-caloric effect. Andronikashvili experiment, two-fluid model and Landau equations of motion, energy spectrum, criterion of superfluidity. Superfluid film. Collective modes - first, second, third and fourth sounds. Macroscopic wave function, quantization of circulation - quantized vortices, mutual friction, Kelvin and Tkachenko waves, introduction into superfluid hydrodynamics, superfluid turbulence. Positive and negative ions, ionic mobility, two-dimensional pools of ions below the surface of superfluid helium, plasma oscillations, crystallization.

Superfluid 3He - basic ideas of generalized BCS theory, paramagnons, equal spin pairing, order parameter for the A, B, and A1 phases. Textures and orienting forces, solitons. Nuclear magnetic resonance. Phase-slips and Josephson phenomena in 3He. Rotating 3He- continuous and singular vortices. Superfluid hydrodynamics in 3He, Kelvin-Helmholtz instability, transition to superfluid turbulence. Relationship between superfluidity and cosmology, Kibble-Zurek mechanism.

BEC - hydrogen, alcali atoms, experiments, principles of laser cooling, BEC and superfluidity. Quantized vortices in BEC.

 
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