Three-Body Problem in a Dilute Bose-Einstein Condensate

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 21, 2002, Pages

  Köhler, Thorsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; SCATTERING; VACUUM APPLICATIONS;

COUPLING CONSTANT;

ATOMIC PHYSICS;

EID: 0037132263     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.210404     Document Type: Article

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