Mott insulator to superfluid transition of ultracold bosons in an optical lattice near a Feshbach resonance

Europhysics Letters

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 586-592

  Sengupta, K ^a   Dupuis, N ^b  

^a Yale University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

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EID: 19944397096     PISSN: 02955075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1209/epl/i2004-10514-9     Document Type: Article

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