Atomic landau-zener tunneling and wannier-stark ladders in optical potentials

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 76, Issue 24, 1996, Pages 4504-4507

  Niu, Qian ^a   Zhao, Xian Geng ^a   Georgakis, G A ^a   Raizen, M G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

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EID: 0000599841     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.76.4504     Document Type: Article

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