Natural entanglement in Bose-Einstein condensates

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2002, Pages

  Simon, Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGED PARTICLES; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTRODYNAMICS; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS;

BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATES; FINITE PARTICLE NUMBER;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0036878893     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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