Coherent oscillations between two weakly coupled Bose-Einstein condensates: Josephson effects, [Formula Presented] oscillations, and macroscopic quantum self-trapping

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 620-633

  Raghavan, S ^a   Smerzi, A ^b   Fantoni, S ^a,b   Shenoy, S R ^a  

^a ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

^b SISSA   (Italy)

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EID: 0000853117     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.59.620     Document Type: Article

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