Observation of caustics in the trajectories of cold atoms in a linear magnetic potential

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 2003, Pages

  Rooijakkers, Wilbert ^a   Wu, Saijun ^a   Striehl, Pierre ^a   Vengalattore, Mukund ^a   Prentiss, Mara ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; CHARGE TRANSFER; ELECTRON BEAM LITHOGRAPHY; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ELECTRON TRAPS; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; LASER APPLICATIONS; MAGNETOOPTICAL EFFECTS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL PUMPING;

ATOM DENSITIES; CAUSTICS; COLD ATOMS; DISCRETE RINGLIKE STRUCTURES; ENERGY DISTRIBUTION; FERROMAGNETIC GUIDE; LASER COOLING; LINEAR MAGNETIC POTENTIAL; SPIN STATES;

ATOMS;

EID: 1142280215     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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