Decay and revival of phase coherence of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a one-dimensional lattice

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2003, Pages

  Morsch, O ^a   Muller J H ^a   Ciampini, D ^a   Cristiani, M ^a   Blakie, P B ^b   Williams, C J ^b   Julienne, P S ^b   Arimondo, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); EQUATIONS OF MOTION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ONE DIMENSIONAL; OSCILLATIONS; QUANTUM OPTICS;

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATE; ONE-DIMENSIONAL LATTICE; PHASE COHERENCE; THOMAS-FERMI DENSITY; WANNIER STATES;

GAS CONDENSATES;

EID: 0037837648     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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