Les Houches predoctoral summer school on Statistical Physics
27 July - 7 September 2007

Lecture notes of Yvan Castin on "Quantum Gases"
(PDF format)

Section 1 : Introduction ; The ideal Bose gas
Section 2 : Which model for the interaction potential ?
Section 3 : Bogoliubov method for weakly interacting bosons
Section 4 : Extension of Bogoliubov theory to 1D and 2D for weakly interacting bosons
Section 5 : Classical field models for weakly interacting bosons
Section 6 : Fermi gases with tunable interaction