University of Toronto
Physics Department
Quantum Optics and Condensed Matter
MONDAY SEMINAR


Speaker : PROF. ALLAN GRIFFIN
Department of Physics
University of Toronto
Topic : TWO-FLUID DYNAMICS IN A TRAPPED SUPERFLUID BOSE GAS
Time : Monday, December 4, 2000 at 12:10 p.m.
Place : Room MP408, Burton Tower 60 St. George Street / 255 Huron Street

Abstract

The discovery in 1995 of Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) in trapped laser-cooled atomic gases has opened up an exciting field of research on a new superfluid phase of matter.  Experimental advances in the last year allow one to study the collective dynamics of these Bose-condensed gases in the collisionless as well as in the collision-dominated (or hydrodynamic) region.  This seminar will review recent theoretical work, with emphasis on the two-fluid hydrodynamics of these gases and  analogies to similar behaviour found in superfluid Helium.
 

Prof. Allan Griffin   phone  (416) 978-5199

See   http://www.physics.utoronto.ca/~qocmp
 

NOTE:  There will be no QOCMP seminar on Election Day, November 27th.