Criteria for inclusion of a paper
in the BEC bibliography


Our bibliography is meant primarily as an aid in the preparation of references for manuscripts on the topic of BEC; it is not meant to be an up-to-the-instant clearinghouse for BEC research results. We don't intend to compete with the GSU Big BEC bibliography. Thus we include only papers that have already appeared in print.

If you are in doubt as to whether a published paper belongs in this bibliography, please go ahead and send it to us. We intend to err on the side of inclusiveness.

Core topics:

  • Bose-Einstein condensation (including atom lasers) in atomic and molecular gases


  • degenerate Fermi behavior in atomic and molecular gases

We want to include every paper that has ever appeared in a refereed journal on these topics, and to include proceedings papers to the extent that someone is likely to want to cite them some day. The JILA BEC bibliography is therefore not in any real sense edited.

In particular, inclusion of a paper in the JILA bibliography does not mean that the paper has been "approved" by JILA scientists.

Conversely, omission of a paper does not mean we feel it is "unimportant." Please bring it to our attention.

Related topics:

  • atom interferometry
  • atom optics
  • laser cooling
  • cold collisions
  • liquid helium
  • many-body theory
  • superfluidity
  • magnetic trapping

Some of these topics, (e.g., liquid helium and laser cooling), are mature disciplines with thousands of papers in print --- there is no way we can hope to cover these fields exhaustively. All the same, there are obviously many strong conceptual links between, for example, liquid helium and BEC

The general rule is, if you encounter a paper that you think you personally are likely to want to cite while writing about BEC, then that paper belongs in the JILA bibliography.

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