Quantum kinetic theory: A quantum kinetic master equation for condensation of a weakly interacting Bose gas without a trapping potential

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 2902-2921

  Gardiner, C W ^a   Zoller, P ^b  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ATOMIC PHYSICS; ATOMS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; GASES; KINETIC THEORY; LASER THEORY; MARKOV PROCESSES;

BOLTZMANN EQUATIONS; BORN APPROXIMATION; BOSE CONDENSATION; BOSE GAS; BOSONS; QUANTUM KINETIC MASTER EQUATION; UEHLING-UHLENBECK EQUATION;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0031124645     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.55.2902     Document Type: Article

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