Observation of spinor dynamics in optically trapped 87Rb Bose-Einstein condensates

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 14, 2004, Pages

  Chang, M S ^a   Hamley, C D ^a   Barrett, M D ^a,b   Sauer, J A ^a   Fortier, K M ^a   Zhang, W ^a   You, L ^a   Chapman, M S ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; GROUND STATE; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MICROWAVES; OSCILLATIONS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; QUANTUM THEORY; RUBIDIUM; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; OPTICAL TRAPS; PHASE RELATIONSHIP; QUANTUM STRUCTURE;

GAS CONDENSATES;

EID: 2542441991     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.140403     Document Type: Article

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