Soliton eigenvalue control in optical lattices

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 14, 2004, Pages

  Kartashov, Yaroslav V ^a,b   Crasovan, Lucian Cornel ^a,c   Zelenina, Anna S ^b   Vysloukh, Victor A ^d   Sanpera, Anna ^a,e   Lewenstein, Maciej ^a,e   Torner, Lluis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c INSTITUTE OF ATOMIC PHYSICS   (Romania)

^d UNIVERSIDAD DE LAS AMÉRICAS PUEBLA   (Mexico)

^e Leibniz University Hannover   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING ENERGY; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; HYDRODYNAMICS; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SOLITONS;

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATES (BEC); BOUND STATES (BS); OPTICAL LATTICES; SELF-SPLITTING;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 19644400604     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.143902     Document Type: Article

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