Bose-Einstein condensates in optical lattices: Band-gap structure and solitons

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2003, Pages

  Louis, Pearl J Y ^a   Ostrovskaya, Elena A ^a   Savage, Craig M ^a   Kivshar, Yuri S ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND STRUCTURE; BINDING ENERGY; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTRONIC DENSITY OF STATES; ENERGY GAP; INTEGRODIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; QUANTUM OPTICS; SOLITONS;

ATOMIC INTERACTIONS; BAND GAP STRUCTURES; BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATES; GROSS- PITAEVSKII EQUATIONS; OPTICAL LATTICES;

ELECTRON GAS;

EID: 0037242034     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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