Observation of reduced three-body recombination in a correlated 1D degenerate bose gas

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 19, 2004, Pages

  Tolra, B Laburthe ^a,b   O'Hara, K M ^a   Huckans, J H ^a   Phillips, W D ^a   Rolston, S L ^a,c   Porto, J V ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 13   (France)

^c Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CORRELATION METHODS; CRYSTAL LATTICES; ELECTRIC INSULATORS; FERMIONS; FUNCTIONS; GROUND STATE; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; KINETIC ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PHASE TRANSITIONS; RUBIDIUM; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

BOSE GAS; BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATE (BEC); GROSS-PITAEVSKII (GP) EQUATION; WAVE FUNCTIONS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 18344398744     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.190401     Document Type: Article

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