Creation and mobility of discrete solitons in Bose-Einstein condensates

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 69, Issue 5 B, 2004, Pages

  Ahufinger, V ^a   Sanpera, A ^a   Pedri, P ^a,b   Santos, L ^a   Lewenstein, M ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CONDENSATE TREATMENT; CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE; HAMILTONIANS; KINETIC ENERGY; LASER BEAMS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; POTENTIAL ENERGY;

ATOMIC OPTICS; BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATES (BEC); DISCRETE SOLITONS; INTERATOMIC INTERACTIONS; OPTICAL LATTICES;

SOLITONS;

EID: 3042791079     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.69.053604     Document Type: Article

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