Observation of nonspreading wave packets in an imaginary potential

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 95, Issue 11, 2005, Pages

  Stutzle R ^a   Gobel M C ^a   Horner Th ^a   Kierig, E ^a   Mourachko, I ^a   Oberthaler, M K ^a   Efremov, M A ^b   Fedorov, M V ^b   Yakovlev, V P ^c   Van Leeuwen, K A H ^d   Schleich, W P ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b PROKHOROV GENERAL PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH NUCLEAR UNIVERSITY MEPHI   (Russian Federation)

^d EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEBROGLIE WAVES; HEISENBERG'S UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE; QUADRATIC PHASE; WAVE PACKETS;

INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT MODULATION; OPTICAL DEVICES; QUANTUM OPTICS; QUANTUM THEORY;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES;

EID: 27144514389     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.110405     Document Type: Article

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