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I am mainly writing on laser trapping, but I think it would be good to mention BEC as an application. Thank you for your suggestions. I'll get right to it.

Hey everybody, this is not exactly a homework question, but I am writing a term paper on the topic of laser trapping and cooling, and would appreciate any good sources that anyone could provide. This is an undergraduate thermal physics class, and does not need to be extremely technical...

Homework Statement It is question number 1a here: http://web.utk.edu/~tbarnes/website/cm/cm_hw/hw4/cm_hw4.pdf The Attempt at a Solution I'm not entirely sure how to go about this. I've rearranged this equation to get -3ln(0.33)=Ghkl2<\delta^2>The thing that confuses me is that Ghkl2 is a...