Course on two-dimensional quantum gases

RESUMO

This course on two-dimensional quantum gases, prepared for the S{ã}o Paulo ICTP-SAIFR IVth School on Light and Cold Atoms, is organized into three lectures. The first introductory lecture addresses Bose-Einstein condensation in an ideal gas, the effect of interactions in the weakly interacting limit, Gross-Pitaevskii equation and its hydrodynamic formulation, as well as superfluidity. The second lecture is devoted to the main features of two-dimensional quantum gases: importance of the interactions, enhanced phase fluctuations and the emergence of a quasi long-range order, superfluidity through the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless mechanism, scaling symmetry. The third lecture has taken the form of a seminar on fast rotating quasi two-dimensional Bose gases and thermal melting of the vortex lattice. The slides accompanying these notes can be found on the school website: this https URL .