Macroscopic Spin Tunneling and Quantum Critical Behavior of a Condensate in a Double-Well Potential

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 9, 2002, Pages

  Pu, Han ^a   Zhang, Weiping ^a   Meystre, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FERROMAGNETISM; GROUND STATE; HAMILTONIANS; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; QUANTUM THEORY; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

MACROSCOPIC SPIN TUNNELING; QUANTUM TUNNELING;

ELECTRON TUNNELING;

EID: 0037179422     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.090401     Document Type: Article

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