New bloch period for interacting cold atoms in 1D optical lattices

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 21, 2003, Pages 2130021-2130024

  Kolovsky, Andrey R ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK KOMPLEXER SYSTEME   (Germany)

^b KIRENSKY INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BESSEL FUNCTIONS; CRYSTAL LATTICES; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTRONS; HAMILTONIANS;

OPTICAL LATTICES;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0037777536     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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