Gravity-induced Wannier-Stark ladder in an optical lattice

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 023607-023601

  Zapata, J ^a   Guzman A M ^a   Moore, M G ^a   Meystre, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUUM MECHANICS; CRYSTAL LATTICES; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ELECTRON RESONANCE; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; HAMILTONIANS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

OPTICAL LATTICES;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 0035251232     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.63.023607     Document Type: Article

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