Three-body recombination at large scattering lengths in an ultracold atomic gas

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 12, 2003, Pages

  Weber, Tino ^a   Herbig, Jens ^a   Mark, Michael ^a   Nägerl, Hanns Christoph ^a   Grimm, Rudolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CESIUM; MOLECULAR VIBRATIONS; RESONANCE;

ULTRACOLD GAS;

ATOMIC PHYSICS;

EID: 0142188669     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.123201     Document Type: Article

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