Driving superfluidity with photoassociation

Optics Express

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 118-122

  Mackie, Matt ^a   Timmermans, Eddy ^b   Côté, Robin ^c   Javanainen, Juha ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC PHYSICS; FERMIONS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MICROWAVES; MOLECULAR PHYSICS; PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; THERMAL EFFECTS;

COHERENT OPTICAL EFFECTS; FREQUENCY CONVERSION; PHOTOASSOCIATION; SUPERFLUID STATE;

OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION;

EID: 0141578208     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.8.000118     Document Type: Conference Paper

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