Effect of quantum fluctuations on the dipolar motion of Bose-Einstein condensates in optical lattices

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 7, 2004, Pages

  Polkovnikov, Anatoli ^a   Wang, Daw Wei ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CONDENSATION; CRYSTAL LATTICES; ELECTRON TUNNELING; FUNCTIONS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SUPERFLUID HELIUM;

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATES; GROSS-PITAVESKII EQUATIONS (GPE); QUANTUM PHASE TRANSITION (QPT); SHARP TRANSITION BOUNDARY;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 19444362933     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.070401     Document Type: Article

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