Wave packet echoes in the motion of trapped atoms

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 15, 2000, Pages 3121-3124

  Buchkremer, F B J ^a   Dumke, R ^a   Levsen, H ^a   Birkl, G ^a   Ertmer, W ^a  

^a INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; GROUND STATE; LASER BEAMS; MAGNETOOPTICAL EFFECTS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICS; OSCILLATIONS; PHOTONS; RUBIDIUM; SCATTERING;

MAGNETOOPTICAL TRAP; OPTICAL LATTICE; TRAPPED ATOMS; WAVE PACKET ECHOES;

ATOMS;

EID: 0034301881     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.3121     Document Type: Article

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