Editors:
- The Poincaré Seminar is held twice a year at the Institut Henri Poincaré in Paris
- The goal of this Seminar is to provide up-to-date information about general topics of great interest in physics
- Both theoretical and experimental aspects are covered, with some historical background
- Particular care is devoted to the pedagogical nature of the presentation so as to fulfill the goal of being accessible to a broad audience of scientists
Part of the book series: Progress in Mathematical Physics (PMP, volume 38)
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This volume contains the third and fourth Poincaré Seminar, both held in 2003. The third one is devoted to Bose-Einstein Condensation: it covers the physics of superfluid liquid helium as well as the recently discovered atomic Bose-Einstein condensates. Major experimental results are presented, together with relevant theoretical approaches and remaining open questions. The fourth one is devoted to Entropy, giving a comprehensive account of the history and various realizations of this concept, from thermodynamics to black holes, and includes theoretical and experimental discussions of the corresponding fluctuations for mesoscopic systems near equilibrium.
Keywords
- Bose-Einstein condensation
- Entropy
- Quantum physics
- Statistical physics
- Thermodynamics
Editors and Affiliations
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École Normale Supérieure Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Paris CX 05, France
Jean Dalibard
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Université Paris-Sud Laboratoire de Physique Théorique, Orsay, France
Vincent Rivasseau
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Poincaré Seminar 2003
Book Subtitle: Bose-Einstein Condensation — Entropy
Editors: Jean Dalibard, Vincent Rivasseau
Series Title: Progress in Mathematical Physics
Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Basel AG 2004
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-7643-7106-7Published: 25 May 2004
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-7643-7116-6Published: 24 May 2004
Series ISSN: 1544-9998
Series E-ISSN: 2197-1846
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 264