Observation of dynamical instability for a Bose-Einstein condensate in a moving 1D optical lattice

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 14, 2004, Pages

  Fallani, L ^a   De Sarlo, L ^a   Lye, J E ^a   Modugno, M ^a,b   Saers, R ^a,c   Fort, C ^a   Inguscio, M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; BAND STRUCTURE; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; LATTICE VIBRATIONS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; OPTICAL BISTABILITY; OPTICAL TESTING; QUASICRYSTALS;

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATE; COMPLEX STRUCTURE; DYNAMICAL INSTABILITY; OPTICAL LATTICE;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 19644401283     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.140406     Document Type: Article

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