Classical chaos with bose-einstein condensates in tilted optical lattices

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 21, 2003, Pages

  Thommen, Quentin ^a   Garreau, Jean Claude ^a   Zehnlé, Véronique ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DES SCIENCES ET TECHNOLOGIES DE LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAOS THEORY; CRYSTAL LATTICES; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; HAMILTONIANS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PHASE SPACE METHODS; RESONANCE;

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATES; OPTICAL LATTICES; QUANTUM CHAOS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0347682142     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.210405     Document Type: Article

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