Phase dynamics after connection of two separate Bose-Einstein condensates

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2003, Pages

  Zapata, I ^a,b   Sols, F ^b   Leggett, A J ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO NICOLÁS CABRERA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; CHARGED PARTICLES; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; PHASE SEPARATION; PLASMA OSCILLATIONS; QUANTUM THEORY;

BLOCK OSCILLATIONS; BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATES; FOCK STATES; PHASE DYNAMICS; QUASIPARTICLES;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 0037964154     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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