Creation of solitons and vortices by Bragg reflection of Bose-Einstein condensates in an optical lattice

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 11, 2003, Pages

  Scott, R G ^a   Martin, A M ^a   Fromhold, T M ^a   Bujkiewicz, S ^a,b   Sheard, F W ^a   Leadbeater, M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; BAND STRUCTURE; CARRIER CONCENTRATION; CONDENSATION REACTIONS; CRYSTAL LATTICES; DAMPING; ELECTRON TRAPS; FUNCTIONS; LIGHT REFLECTION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; OPTICAL MATERIALS;

ATOM DENSITIES; BOSE EINSTEIN CONDENSATES; BRAGG REFLECTION; CENTER OF MASS MOTION; HARMONIC TRAP; OPTICAL LATTICE;

SOLITONS;

EID: 0038643312     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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