Dynamical Superfluid-Insulator Transition in a Chain of Weakly Coupled Bose-Einstein Condensates

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 17, 2002, Pages

  Smerzi, A ^a   Trombettoni, A ^a,b   Kevrekidis, P G ^c   Bishop, A R ^a  

^a CENTER FOR NONLINEAR STUDIES   (United States)

^b SISSA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ATOMIC PHYSICS; BAND STRUCTURE; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; ELECTRON TUNNELING; HAMILTONIANS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PHASE TRANSITIONS; QUANTUM THEORY;

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATE; GROSS-PITAEVSKII EQUATION; INTERATOMIC INTERACTION; SUPERFLUID-INSULATOR TRANSITION;

STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

EID: 0037152839     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.170402     Document Type: Article

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