Interference of an array of independent Bose-Einstein condensates

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 18, 2004, Pages

  Hadzibabic, Zoran ^a   Stock, Sabine ^a   Battelier, Baptiste ^a   Bretin, Vincent ^a   Dalibard, Jean ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE KASTLER BROSSEL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; ELECTRON TRAPS; EVAPORATION; FREQUENCIES; GAS CONDENSATES; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT POLARIZATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; QUANTUM THEORY;

BOSE EINSTEIN CONDENSATES (BEC); HARMONIC TRAPPING; OPTICAL LATTICES; PERIODIC ATOMIC DISTRIBUTION;

LIGHT INTERFERENCE;

EID: 19744367457     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.180403     Document Type: Article

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