Contents
Laser Physics


Vol. 12, No. 1, 2002


Special Issue

BOSE–EINSTEIN CONDENSATION OF TRAPPED ATOMS

Preface

Guest Editors


Review Articles

Nonlinear Atom Optics: Recent Results and Prospects

P. Meystre p. 1  abstract

Quantum Mechanics of One-Dimensional Trapped Tonks Gases

M. D. Girardeau and E. M. Wright p. 8  abstract

Dynamics of Trapped Bose–Einstein Condensates: Beyond the Mean-Field

M. K. Olsen, L. I. Plimak, V. I. Kruglov, J. J. Hope, P. D. Drummond, and M. J. Collett p. 21  abstract


Original Papers

Stationary States of Bose–Einstein Condensates in Single- and Multi-Well Trapping Potentials

R. D’Agosta, B. A. Malomed, and C. Presilla p. 37  abstract

Microscopic Evolution of a Weakly Interacting Homogeneous Bose Gas

D. G. Barci, E. S. Fraga, and R. O. Ramos p. 43  abstract

Coherent Transport in a Bose–Einstein Condensate Inside an Optical Lattice

M. L. Chiofalo, M. Polini, and M. P. Tosi p. 50  abstract

Quantum Deflection of Ultracold Atoms from Mirrors

V. V. Dodonov and M. A. Andreata p. 57  abstract

Spectral Properties and Self-Trapping Effect in Coupled Bose–Einstein Condensates

R. Franzosi and V. Penna p. 71  abstract

The Stability of an Ion-Trap Laser

R. Guzman and M. Orszag p. 77  abstract

Finite Temperature Field Theory of Bose–Einstein Condensates

D. A. W. Hutchinson and S. A. Morgan p. 84  abstract

Dynamical Simulations of Trapped Bose Gases at Finite Temperatures

B. Jackson and E. Zaremba p. 93  abstract

The Damping of the Bose-Condensate Oscillations in a Trap at Zero Temperature

Yu. Kagan and L. A. Maksimov p. 106  abstract

Vortex Nucleation and Quadrupole Deformation of a Rotating Bose–Einstein Condensate

M. Kramer, L. Pitaevskii, S. Stringari, and F. Zambelli p. 113  abstract

Ultracold Bose Atoms in Intense Laser Fields: Intensity- and Density-Dependent Effects

K. V. Krutitsky, K.-P. Marzlin, and J. Audretsch p. 121  abstract

Symmetries and Decoherence of Two-Component Confined Atomic Clouds:
Study of the Atomic Echo in the Two-Component Bose–Einstein Condensate

A. B. Kuklov, N. Chensincki, and J. L. Birman p. 127  abstract

The Escape Velocity in a Magneto-Optical Trap and Its Importance to Trap Loss Investigation

K. M. F. Magalhaes, S. R. Muniz, G. D. Telles, Ph. W. Courteille, V. S. Bagnato, and L. G. Marcassa p. 145  abstract

Dynamics of an “Atom Laser”—A Source of a Beam of Coherent Atoms

A. N. Oraevsky p. 152  abstract

Variational Principle in the Spatially Periodic Bose Condensate Theory

A. S. Peletminsky, S. V. Peletminsky, and Yu. V. Slyusarenko p. 162  abstract

Classical and Quantum Description of the Atomic Motion in Superradiant Light
Scattering from Bose–Einstein Condensates

N. Piovella, M. Gatelli, L. Martinucci, R. Bonifacio, B. W. J. McNeil, and G. R. M. Robb p. 188  abstract

Pulsed Quantum Tunneling with Matter Waves

L. Salasnich p. 198  abstract

Critical Temperature Shift in Dilute Bose Gas

F. F. de Souza Cruz, M. B. Pinto, R. O. Ramos p. 203  abstract

Two-Dimensional Bose Condensates in a Harmonic Trap

B. Tanatar p. 207  abstract

Semiclassical Theory of Super-Radiant Scattering and Amplification
in a Bose–Einstein Condensate of Atomic Vapours

E. D. Trifonov p. 211  abstract

Collective Excitations of Dilute Bose–Fermi Superfluid Mixtures

B. H. Valtan, M. Nishida, and S. Kurihara p. 217  abstract

Signatures of Bose–Einstein Condensation in Very Low Energy Atomic Scattering
from Trapped Gases

A. Wynveen and J. W. Halley p. 223  abstract

Critical Effects in Population Dynamics of Trapped Bose–Einstein Condensates

V. I. Yukalov, E. P. Yukalova, and V. S. Bagnato p. 231  abstract

Finite Size Effects on the Collective Oscillations of a Trapped Bose Gas

F. Zambelli and S. Stringari p. 240  abstract

Properties of a Dense Bose–Einstein Condensate

K. Ziegler p. 247  abstract


Information

10th International Laser Physics Workshop:
Seminar on Bose–Einstein Condensation of Trapped Atoms (Brief Report)

11th International Laser Physics Workshop (LPHYS’02), (Bratislava, July 1–5, 2002)

Special Issue: Laser Methods in Medicine and Biology (November 2002)

Special Issue: Photonic Crystals (November 2003)

Information for Authors


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