… • Part I introduces basic atomic physics relevant to ultracold atomic … -atom physics, such as
atomic structures and atom–light interaction, and the other on two-body collision physics. This …

… -state physics to particle physics and astrophysics. The evolution of atomic physics along the
… fields, including atomic physics, condensed matter physics, particle physics, astrophysics, …

… In this article, we review some recent developments relevant to ultracold atomic physics.
Ultracold atoms provide an … This is unique to ultracold atomic physics, and is not found …

… versatile techniques of atomic physics provide unique means for … In contrast to many early
experiments on ultracold atoms, … using hydrodynamics and mean-field physics (38, 49, 50), we …

… An impressive amount of experimental and theoretical activity has characterized the past
ten years of ultracold atom physics. The first realization of Bose-Einstein condensation BEC in …

We review recent developments in the physics of ultracold atomic and molecular gases in
optical lattices. Such systems are nearly perfect realisations of various kinds of Hubbard …

… a new research field of ultracold atoms, where the flexibility in … An ambitious yet realistic
direction is to use ultracold atomic … However, a major obstacle is that ultracold atomic gases are …

… At the time, every physicist would have understood that … Anderson received the Nobel Prize
in Physics in 1977, the effect was … One approach is to observe the behavior of ultracold atoms …

… physics with ultracold atomic gases. It is based on a Fermi sea of two different hyperfine
states of one atom … We discuss how tools of atomic physics can be used to investigate open …

… in atomic gases, held in Varenna in July 1998. These lectures provide an introduction to
ultracold atomic interaction and collision physics, … of ground-state alkali atoms, since most BEC …