Optical detection of fractional particle number in an atomic fermi-dirac gas

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 15, 2003, Pages

  Javanainen, Juha ^a   Ruostekoski, Janne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; FERMIONS; HAMILTONIANS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; QUANTUM THEORY; SOLITONS;

ATOMIC GASES; OPTICAL LATTICES;

PARTICLE OPTICS;

EID: 10044293663     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.150404     Document Type: Article

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