Theory of coherent photoassociation of a Bose-Einstein condensate

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 063616-063611

  Koštrun, Marijan ^a   Mackie, Matt ^a,b   Côté, Robin ^a   Javanainen, Juha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATION REACTIONS; COHERENT LIGHT; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR VIBRATIONS; OSCILLATIONS; PHOTODISSOCIATION;

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATE (BEC); COHERENT PHOTOASSOCIATION;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 17744368677     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.62.063616     Document Type: Article

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