Interaction in Ultracold Gases

Tutorial Lectures:Peter van der Straten, Harold Metcalf: The Quest for Bose-Einstein CondensationJohn Weiner: Quantum CollisionsKlaus Sengstock, Kai Bongs: Quantum Degenerate GasesEberhard Tiemann: Cold MoleculesAllard Mosk: Experimental Techniques for Ultracold GasesTopical Reports:Rudi Grimm et al.: Two-Dimensional Gas of Cesium Atoms Confined by Evanescent WavesPhil Gould et al.: Ultracold Rydberg Gases and PlasmasGiovanni Modugno, Giacomo Roati: Interactions in Ultracold Atomic MixturesImmanuel Bloch et al.: Bose Einstein Condensates in Optical LatticeNeill Claussen et al.: Atom-Molecule Coherence in 85 Rb BECDaniel Comparat et al.: Formation and Trapping of Cold MoleculesGerard Meijer: Declaration and Trapping of Polar MoleculesDaniel Zajfman, et al.: Physics with Cold Molecular IonsBen Sauer: Cold Molecules as a Laboratory for Particle Physics

Editors:Matthias Weidemüller is head of the Laser Cooling Group at the Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics and Lecturer of Physics at the University of Heidelberg. After studying Physics in Bonn, Munich and Paris he attained his doctorate in 1995 at the Max-Planck-Institute for Quantum Optics. He spent two years as a Postdoc at the University of Amsterdam and the FOM-Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics, before entering the Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg. His group experimentally explores the physics of ultracold atomic and molecular gases in very different environments ranging from tiny optical traps to large-scale heavy-ion storage rings.Claus Zimmermann is Professor for Experimental Physics at the University of Tübingen in Germany. In 1990 he attained his doctorate at the Max-Planck Institut for Quantum Optics in Munich in the research group of Prof. T. Hänsch. He was appointed full Professor at the University of Tübingen in 1998. His scientific activities range from laser development, non-linear optics and precision spectroscopy to optical cooling and ultra cold quantum gases.Authors:Peter van der Straten, Universiy of Utrecht, The NetherlandsJohn Weiner, Universiy Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, FranceAllard Mosk, FOM, Rijnhuizen, The NetherlandsKlaus Sengstock, University of Hamburg, GermanyEberhard Tiemann, University of Hannover, GermanyRudi Grimm, University of Innsbruck, AustriaPhil Gould, University of Connecticut, USAGiovanni Modugno, LENS, Florence, ItalyDaniel Comparat, Laboratory Aimé Cotton, Orsay, FranceDaniel Zajfman, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, IsraelImmanuel Bloch, University of Munich, GermanyNeill Claussen, JILA, Boulder, USABen Sauer, SCOAP, Brighton, UKGerard Meijer, FOM Rijnhuizen, The Netherlands

"... ein wertvoller Beitrag zum hochaktuellen Gebiet der Physik ultrakalter Gase. Es eignet sich insbesondere auf Grund der einführenden Tutorien durchaus als begleitendes Werk für eine Spezialvorlesung oder ein Seminar.... empfehlenswert." Dr. Axel Görlitz, Univ. Stuttgart

"The intention of addressing readers beyond the community of insiders is definitely fulfilled. ... The editors intention in aiming at advanced students and young researchers, as well at experienced researchers with different backgrounds is perfectly fulfilled."Alkwin Slenczka, Uni RegensburgChemPhysChem, 2003, Vol. 4, No. 11