Review Papers




 

Varenna Notes on Fermions
W. Ketterle and M. W. Zwierlein:
Making, probing and understanding ultracold Fermi gases.
in Ultracold Fermi Gases , Proceedings of the International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi", Course CLXIV, Varenna, 20 - 30 June 2006, edited by M. Inguscio, W. Ketterle, and C. Salomon (IOS Press, Amsterdam) 2008, pp. 95-287; e-print, arXiv: 0801.2500; Rivista del Nuovo Cimento 31, 247-422 (2008).
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Nobel Lecture
W. Ketterle:
When atoms behave as waves:  Bose-Einstein condensation and the atom laser.
in: Les Prix Nobel 2001 (The Nobel Foundation, Stockholm, 2002), pp. 118
-154.
reprinted in: ChemPhysChem 3, 736-753 (2002).
Rev. Mod. Phys. 74, 1131-1151 (2002).
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The following review papers give a complete account of our contributions to the field of BEC until 2000. Each paper is self-contained, but major overlap with previous review papers was avoided.

Cargese lecture notes
W. Ketterle and S. Inouye:
Collective enhancement and suppression in Bose-Einstein condensates.
Compte rendus de l'académie des sciences, Série IV - Physique Astrophysique, vol. 2, pp. 339-380 (2001); e-print cond- mat/0101424.
AbstractPaper (pdf, 1.0 MB)

Les Houches lecture notes
D.M. Stamper-Kurn and W. Ketterle:
Spinor Condensates and Light Scattering from Bose-Einstein Condensates.
in: Coherent Atomic Matter Waves, Les Houches Summer School Session LXXII in 1999, edited by R. Kaiser, C. Westbrook, and F. David (Springer, NewYork, 2001), pp. 137-217; e-print cond-mat/0005001.
AbstractPreprint (pdf, 876 kB)

Varenna lecture notes
W. Ketterle, D.S. Durfee, and D.M. Stamper-Kurn:
Making, probing and understanding Bose-Einstein condensates.
In Bose-Einstein condensation in atomic gases, Proceedings of the International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi", Course CXL, edited by M. Inguscio, S. Stringari and C.E. Wieman (IOS Press, Amsterdam, 1999) pp. 67-176.
Preprint (pdf, 1.07 MB)

Comprehensive review paper on evaporative cooling
W. Ketterle and N.J. van Druten:
Evaporative cooling of atoms.
Advances in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, edited by B. Bederson and
H. Walther, Vol. 37, 181-236 (1996).
Paper ( pdf, 5.6 MB)

For further review papers and proceedings, see the List of Publications (pdf, 114 kB)