Magnetic field dependence of ultracold inelastic collisions near a Feshbach resonance

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 728-731

  Roberts, J L ^a   Claussen, N R ^a   Cornish, S L ^a   Wieman, C E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON RESONANCE; ELECTRON SCATTERING; GROUND STATE; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; RUBIDIUM; THERMAL EFFECTS;

FESHBACH RESONANCE; MAGNETIC FIELD DEPENDENCE; MAGNETIC TRAP; ULTRACOLD INELASTIC COLLISION;

ATOMIC PHYSICS;

EID: 0034226381     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.728     Document Type: Article

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