Coherent molecular optics using ultracold sodium dimers

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2005, Pages

  Abo Shaeer, J R ^b   Miller, D E ^a   Chin, J K ^a   Xu, K ^a   Mukaiyama, T ^a   Ketterle, W ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATES (BEC); BRAGG TRANSITIONS; QUANTUM STATES; TWO-PHONON BRAGG SCATTERING;

COHERENT LIGHT; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); DIMERS; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; LASER BEAMS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM THEORY; RESONANCE; SODIUM COMPOUNDS; TRANSPARENCY;

MOLECULAR PHYSICS;

EID: 18144376304     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.040405     Document Type: Article

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