Flat-phase loading of a Bose-Einstein condensate into an optical lattice

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2002, Pages

  Sklarz, Shlomo E ^a   Friedler, Inbal ^a   Tannor, David J ^a   Band, Yehuda B ^b   Williams, Carl J ^c  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC PHYSICS; BAND STRUCTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRON SCATTERING; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; HAMILTONIANS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SODIUM;

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATE; INTRABAND ADIABATICITY; MAGNETIC TRAP; MOTT-INSULATOR TRANSITION; OPTICAL LATTICE; QUANTUM COMPUTING;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0036878880     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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