Getting the elastic scattering length by observing inelastic collisions in ultracold metastable helium atoms

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 9, 2004, Pages

  Seidelin, S ^a   Gomes, J Viana ^a,b   Hoppeler, R ^a   Sirjean, O ^a   Boiron, D ^a   Aspect, A ^a   Westbrook, C I ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; CONDENSATION; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); HYDRODYNAMICS; IONIZATION; MAGNETIC FIELDS; PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SCATTERING; SUPERCRITICAL FLUIDS;

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATES (BEC); ELASTIC SCATTERING; INELASTIC COLLISIONS; ION FLUX;

SUPERFLUID HELIUM;

EID: 19544366759     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.090409     Document Type: Article

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