From classical mobility to hopping conductivity: charge hopping in an ultracold gas

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 25, 2000, Pages 5316-5319

  Côté, Robin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; CARRIER MOBILITY; CHARGE TRANSFER; DENSITY (OPTICAL); ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY OF GASES; IONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PROBABILITY; THERMAL EFFECTS;

CHARGE HOPPING; CHARGE MOBILITIES; ELECTRON JUMPING; ULTRACOLD GAS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0037632454     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.5316     Document Type: Article

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