Propagation of sound in a Bose-Einstein condensate in an optical lattice

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2004, Pages

  Menotti, C ^a   Kramer M ^a   Smerzi, A ^a,b   Pitaevskii, L ^a,c   Stringari, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c KAPITZA INSTITUTE FOR PHYSICAL PROBLEMS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INSULATING MATERIALS; LATTICE CONSTANTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; WAVE EQUATIONS;

BOGOLIUBOV THEORY; BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATE; QUASIMOMENTUM; SOUND SIGNALS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 19544394419     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.70.023609     Document Type: Article

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