A Century of Bose-Einstein Condensation

Nature has published a wonderful review of the discovery and progress that we have made in understanding BE condensation since its discovery. It is an open access article and you can download the full article. I definitely like the figure that shows the major milestone in its development, but it would be nice if that is expanded even more to include references, or at least citation numbers so that I don't have to go hunting for them. 

Scanning through the article, I actually did a quick headcount on how many of the names mentioned in the article that I had met personally: Schrieffer, Leggett, Anderson, and Abrikosov. I believe Leggett is the only one still around as of this writing.

I didn't get too much into BE condensation even though I was working in superconductivity at that time. I was transitioning out of that field of study when the big BEC-BCS connection was experimentally established. Still, it was, and still, an exciting field to follow even on the peripheral.

Zz. 

"Introduction to superfluidity -- Field-theoretical approach and applications"

A very useful book chapter on superfluids if you are so inclined to study this subject in a bit more detail.

Zz.

Fermi Gasses And Superfluids

This is a concise review of the physics of Fermi gasses and BE condensate, and how they are related to each other in light of the BE-BCS crossover discovery from a few years ago. Note that this review is highly technical and probably meant for condensed matter physicists. But it still provides ample overview of the theory and experiments that we have so far.

Zz.

Teaching Superfluidity at the Introductory Level

I've only glanced through briefly this preprint, but from what I can see, it might provide a useful intro to superfluidity to undergraduate students, and even to those with some physics background. This isn't a topic that is dealt with in extensive details at the modern physics intro level, so it might fill a gap (no pun intended).

If you have read this and have comments about it, I'd like to hear them, especially if my impression of it isn't accurate.

Zz.