Structure and stability of bosonic clouds: Alkali-metal atoms with negative scattering length

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 1998, Pages R3180-R3183

  Parola, A ^a,b   Salasnich, L ^a,b   Reatto, L ^a,b  

^a Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia Milan   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALI METALS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; ATOMIC PHYSICS; CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; INTEGRATION; LITHIUM; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STABILITY;

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSED GROUND STATE; BOSONIC CLOUDS; GROSS-PITAEVSKII EQUATION; HARMONIC TRAP; INTERATOMIC POTENTIAL; LOW DENSITY METASTABLE SOLUTION; NEGATIVE SCATTERING LENGTH; NONLOCALITY EFFECT;

ATOMS;

EID: 0032069324     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.57.R3180     Document Type: Article

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