Observation of atomic wannier-stark ladders in an accelerating optical potential

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 76, Issue 24, 1996, Pages 4512-4515

  Wilkinson, S R ^a   Bharucha, C F ^a   Madison, K W ^a   Niu, Qian ^a   Raizen, M G ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC SPECTROSCOPY; ATOMS; BAND STRUCTURE; ELECTRON TUNNELING; LIGHT; MAGNETOOPTICAL DEVICES; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PHASE MODULATION; PROBABILITY; RESONANCE; SODIUM;

BLOCH OSCILLATIONS; MAGNETOOPTICAL TRAP; QUANTUM INTERFERENCE; STANDING WAVE; ULTRACOLD ATOMS; WANNIER STARK LADDERS;

ATOMIC PHYSICS;

EID: 0030164580     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.76.4512     Document Type: Article

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