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Basics of the Bose–Einstein Condensation (BEC)

Mihai V. Putz

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Abstract

Since the nowadays growing interest in Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC) due to the expanded experimental evidence on various atomic systems within optical lattices in weak and strong coupling regimes, its many-body quantum bases and equations are elementarily presented emphasizing on the order parameter, pseudo-potential and mean field approaches, while emphasizing the common places with the Density Functional Theory, like the integral normalization of density or the chemical potential, as the main vehicles of both theories of matter (Putz, 2011d, 2011e).

DOI: 10.1201/b14167-10

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