Matter-wave localization in disordered cold atom lattices

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2005, Pages

  Gavish, Uri ^a,b   Castin, Yvan ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE KASTLER BROSSEL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDERSON LOCALIZATION; COLD ATOM LATTICES; FILLING FACTOR; OPTICAL LATTICE;

CRYSTAL LATTICES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SCATTERING;

ATOMIC PHYSICS;

EID: 27144528186     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.020401     Document Type: Article

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