The onset of matter-wave amplification in a superradiant Bose-Einstein condensate

Science

Volumn 300, Issue 5618, 2003, Pages 475-478

  Schneble, Dominik ^a   Torii, Yoshio ^a,b   Boyd, Micah ^a   Streed, Erik W ^a   Pritchard, David E ^a   Ketterle, Wolfgang ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; FOUR WAVE MIXING; LASER PULSES; LIGHT SCATTERING;

MATTER-WAVE AMPLIFICATION;

GAS CONDENSATES;

CONDENSATE;

ARTICLE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; LASER; LIGHT; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PHOTON; PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0037453516     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1083171     Document Type: Article

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