Two-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate in an optical surface trap

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 17, 2004, Pages

  Rychtarik, D ^a   Engeser, B ^a   Nagerl H C ^a   Grimm, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; APPROXIMATION THEORY; EVAPORATION; FLUORESCENCE; GRAVITATION; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; LASER TUNING; LENSES; LIGHT REFLECTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; OSCILLATIONS; QUANTUM THEORY; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SURFACE CHEMISTRY;

BOSE-EINSTEIN-CONDENSATION (BEC); EVANESCENT-WAVES (EW); EVAPORATIVE COOLING; GRAVITO-OPTICAL SURFACE TRAPS (GOST);

GAS CONDENSATES;

EID: 2942638054     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.173003     Document Type: Article

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