Bose-Einstein condensation: introduction and open problems

16.05.2022, 13:00  –  Campus Golm, Building 9 Room 2.22
Forschungsseminar Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie

Alexander Zass (WIAS Berlin)

In this talk we present the open problem of Bose--Einstein condensation. In the first part, we provide a
historical background and some physical heuristics for this state of matter that was first conjectured by S.
Bose and A. Einstein in 1924. In the second part, we introduce the framework of point processes that is
used to mathematically describe the Bose gas, and present the question of how to obtain a rigorous proof
of the condensation phase transition.

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