Near-resonant spatial images of confined Bose-Einstein condensates in a 4-Dee magnetic bottle

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 1998, Pages R54-R57

  Vestergaard Hau, Lene ^a,b   Busch, B D ^a,b   Liu, Chien ^a   Dutton, Zachary ^a,b   Burns, Michael M ^a   Golovchenko, J A ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 1642337912     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.58.R54     Document Type: Article

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