Direct observation of a Breit-Wigner phase of a wave function

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 2096-2099

  Fiss, Jeanette A ^a   Khachatrian, Ani ^a   Truhins, Kaspars ^a   Zhu, Langchi ^a   Gordon, Robert J ^a   Seideman, Tamar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MOLECULAR PHYSICS; WAVE EQUATIONS; WAVE INTERFERENCE; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

BREIT-WIGNER PHASE; WAVE FUNCTIONS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0034274227     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.2096     Document Type: Article

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