Delocalizing Transition of Bose-Einstein Condensates in Optical Lattices

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2002, Pages

  Kalosakas, G ^a   Rasmussen, K Ø ^a   Bishop, A R ^a  

^a CENTER FOR NONLINEAR STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAS CONDENSATES; LASER BEAMS; LATTICE CONSTANTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PHONONS; POLARONS; QUANTUM THEORY;

OPTICAL LATTICES;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 0037101108     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.030402     Document Type: Article

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