Spatial fragmentation of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a double-well potential

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 3868-3877

  Spekkens, R W ^a   Sipe, J E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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EID: 0000326729     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.59.3868     Document Type: Article

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