Creation of a dipolar superfluid in optical lattices

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 11, 2003, Pages

  Damski, B ^a,b   Santos, L ^a   Tiemann, E ^c   Lewenstein, M ^a   Kotochigova, S ^d   Julienne, P ^d   Zoller, P ^e  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^c INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

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

^e UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATION REACTIONS; ATOMS; CONDENSATION REACTIONS; CRYSTAL LATTICES; GASES; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MELTING; OPTICAL MATERIALS; PHASE COMPOSITION; PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; QUANTUM THEORY;

BOSE EINSTEIN CONDENSATE; DIPOLAR MOLECULAR CONDENSATE; DIPOLAR SUPERFLUID; ELECTRIC DIPOLE MOMENT; MOTT INSULATOR PHASE; OPTICAL LATTICES; PHOTOASSOCIATION;

SUPERCRITICAL FLUIDS;

EID: 0038304355     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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