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Over the last few years, the experimental realization of Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) in dilute alkali-metal atoms [1] and atomic hydrogen [2] has stimulated studies of the formation and evolution of condensates [3]. The kinetics of the condensate formation from a nonequilibrium initial state to a final coherent state has been explored in many systems [4], and particularly in dilute atomic gases [5],[6]. Recently, effects of quasicondensates on the three-body recombination rate in a two-dimensional gas of atomic hydrogen have been observed [7]. The 1S-2S two-photon absorption lineshapes measured at MIT [2],[8] show distortions that may originate from the formation of metastable quasicondensate droplets [9].
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Côté, R. (2001). Quasicondensate Droplet Formation in Hydrogen. In: Carmichael, H.J., Glauber, R.J., Scully, M.O. (eds) Directions in Quantum Optics. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 561. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-40894-0_3
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