Dynamics of matter solitons in weakly modulated optical lattices

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2004, Pages

  Brazhnyi, V A ^a   Konotop, V V ^a   Kuzmiak, V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHOTONICS AND ELECTRONICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BAND STRUCTURE; DISPERSION (WAVES); LASER BEAMS; LATTICE CONSTANTS; OSCILLATIONS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

BAND GAPS; BOSE EINSTEIN CONDENSATES (BEC); CONDENSATES; OPTICAL LATTICES;

SOLITONS;

EID: 19744368775     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.70.043604     Document Type: Article

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