The Hamiltonian may then be taken to be trivial: H=0.

—Interference of two Bose-Einstein condensates. S. M. Yoo, J. Ruostekoski and J. Javanainen in J. Mod. Opt. 44:1763 (1997).

Juha Javanainen

Juha Javanainen is a theoretical physicist working on atomic BEC (with works relevant to quantum optics).

He is the type of people I naturally feel associated with, for stories such as the one where his son detonated a home-made bomb in the backyard, for which Javanainen served community service and was put under probation [1].

He interests us particularly for his work on phase symmetry breaking in condensates, where he first predicted multiphoton symmetry breaking:

• Spontaneous symmetry breaking derived from a stochastic interpretation of quantum mechanics. J. Javanainen in Phys. Lett. A 161:207 (1991).
• Quantum Phase of a Bose-Einstein Condensate with an Arbitrary Number of Atoms. J. Javanainen and S. M. Yoo in Phys. Rev. Lett. 76:161 (1996).
• Phase and Phase Diffusion of a Split Bose-Einstein Condensate. J. Javanainen and M. Wilkens in Phys. Rev. Lett. 78:4675 (1997).
• Interference of two Bose-Einstein condensates. S. M. Yoo, J. Ruostekoski and J. Javanainen in J. Mod. Opt. 44:1763 (1997).

He concurs with us that interactions are not necessary for BEC and that this is driven by pure Bosonic effects instead.

See also Ref. .

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