Bose-Einstein condensates beyond mean field theory: quantum backreaction as decoherence

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 568-571

  Vardi, A ^a   Anglin, J R ^a  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC PHYSICS; COHERENT LIGHT; DIFFUSION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; OSCILLATIONS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATES; GROSS-PITAEVSKII SCHRODINGER EQUATION; MEAN FIELD THEORY; QUANTUM BACKREACTION; QUANTUM CORRECTIONS; SINGLE PARTICLE DENSITY MATRIX;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0035135016     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.568     Document Type: Article

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