Proceedings of the XVIII International Conference on Atomic Physics : the expanding frontier of atomic physics, ICAP 2002, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, July 28-August 2, 2002 / editors, H.R. Sadeghpour, E.J. Heller, D.E. Pritchard.

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Preface; Contents; BEC Nobel Symposium; The Mystery of the Ramsey Fringe that Didn't Chirp D.M. Harber, H. J, Lewandowski, J.M. McGuirk and E.A. Cornell; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 2 Hyperfine Spectroscopy; 3 Density Shifts; 4 Inter-state density correlations; 5 Where's the chirp?; 6 Conclusion; References; The Bose-Einstein Condensate -- A Superfluid Gas of Coherent Atoms Wolfgang Ketterle; 1 Topological vortex formation in a Bose-Einstein condensate; 2 Two-species mixture of quantum degenerate Bose and Fermi gases; 3 Decay of an ultracold fermionic lithium gas near a Feshbach resonance

4 Generation of macroscopic pair-correlated atomic beams by four- wave mixing in Bose-Einstein condensates5 Transport of Bose-Einstein condensates with optical tweezers; 6 Propagation of Bose-Einstein condensates in a magnetic waveguide; 7 A continuous source of Bose-Einstein condensed atoms; References; Fermi-Bose and Bose-Bose K-Rb Quantum Degenerate Mixtures Massimo Inguscio, Giovanni Modugno and Giacomo Roati; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 2 A two-species BEC; 3 A Fermi-Bose degenerate mixture with attractive interaction; 4 Collapse of a degenerate Fermi gas; 5 Conclusions; 6 Acknowledgments

4 Two and three-body ionization rate constants5 Total BEC decay ws ionization decay: a consistency test; 6 Conclusion and future prospects; References; Bose-Einstein Condensates in Magnetic Micro Traps C. Zimmermann, J. Fortagh, H. Ott, S. Kraft and A. Gunther; Abstract; 1 Magnetic Micro Potentials; 2 Experiment a1 Details; 3 Experimental observations; 4 Outlook; References; New Directions; Atom-Molecule Coherence Near a Feshbach Resonance in a Bose-Einstein Condensate Sarah T. Thompson, Neil R. Claussen, Elizabeth A. Donley and Carl E. Wieman; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 2 Feshbach Physics

3 Experimental Methods4 Burst and Remnant Oscillations; References; Single Atom Manipulation in a Microscopic Dipole Trap Georges Reymond, Nicolas Schlosser and Philippe Grangier; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 2 Experiment; 3 Collisional blockade; 4 Oscillation frequencies and temperature of the trapped atom; 5 Conclusion; References; Ultracold Neutral Plasmas S.L. Rolston and J.L. Roberts; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 2 Creation of ultracold neutral plasmas; 3 Plasma expansion; 4 Rydberg formation; 5 Temperature measurements; 6 Open questions and future work; References

This important proceedings volume highlights the major scientific achievement of the last decade in atomic physics, namely the creation of the gaseous Bose-Einstein condensate, which was featured prominently at the XVIII International Conference on Atomic Physics (ICAP2002). Two recipients of the 2001 Nobel Prize delivered lectures at the meeting. Among the topics discussed were novel processes leading to degenerate Fermi gases in atom traps, creation of cold molecules, condensates in optical lattices, atoms in intense fields, tests of fundamental symmetries, quantum control and information, t.

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