Bose-Einstein condensates in a one-dimensional double square well: Analytical solutions of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 636071-6360711

  Mahmud, K W ^a   Kutz, J N ^a   Reinhardt, W P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONDENSATION; CORRELATION METHODS; GROUND STATE; SOLITONS;

QUANTUM SUPERPOSITION STATES;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0036992141     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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