Relative phase fluctuations of two coupled one-dimensional condensates

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 536091-536095

  Whitlock, Nicholas K ^a   Bouchoule, Isabelle ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUT D'OPTIQUE GRADUATE SCHOOL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONDENSATION; CORRELATION METHODS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; HAMILTONIANS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PHASE MODULATION; VECTORS;

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATES (BEC); PHASE FLUCTUATIONS;

GAS DYNAMICS;

EID: 0942267719     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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