Macroscopic quantum fluctuations in the Josephson dynamics of two weakly linked Bose-Einstein condensates

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 063601-063601

  Smerzi, Augusto ^a   Raghavan, Srikanth ^b  

^a SISSA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC PHYSICS; ELECTRON SCATTERING; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; ELECTRON TRAPS; ELECTRON TUNNELING; GROUND STATE; JOSEPHSON JUNCTION DEVICES; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY;

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATE; BOSON-JOSEPHSON JUNCTION; GROSS-PITAEVSKII EQUATION; MACROSCOPIC QUANTUM SELF TRAPPING; QUANTUM COHERENCE; QUANTUM FLUCTUATION;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0042789962     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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