Experimental studies of Bose-Einstein condensation

Optics Express

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 299-313

  Durfee, Daliin S ^a   Ketterle, Wolfgang ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC PHYSICS; ELECTRON TRAPS; EXCITONS; GROUND STATE; MOLECULAR PHYSICS; QUANTUM THEORY; SODIUM; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; SUPERFLUID HELIUM;

COHERENCE PROPERTIES; INTERATOMIC SEPARATION; QUANTUM STATE; WAVEPACKETS;

CONDENSATION;

EID: 0001297368     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.2.000299     Document Type: Article

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