Dynamical instability in a trimeric chain of interacting Bose-Einstein condensates

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 2003, Pages

  Buonsante, P ^a   Franzosi, R ^b   Penna, V ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONDENSATION; ELECTRON TUNNELING; HAMILTONIANS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; QUANTUM THEORY;

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATES; DYNAMICAL INSTABILITY; MACROSCOPIC EFFECTS; SPACE MODE APPROXIMATION;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 0037422955     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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