Jean Dalibard

Problems for class: Physics in the Lowest Landau Level

Lecture 1:

Lecture 2:

Lecture 3:

Outline of material covered in 3 lectures

I. Static atomic gases in two dimensions

- Ideal gas BEC in reduced dimensionality

- The role of interactions

- Mean-field approach

- The Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless mechanism

- Experimental investigations

II. Rotating gases in two dimensions

- Vortex nucleation in a rotating frame

- The emergence of Landau levels

- Abrikosov vortex lattices

- Simulating rotations with geometric phases

- Towards FQHE (in connection with Mike Gunn's lectures)