Creation, detection, and decoherence of macroscopic quantum superposition states in double-well Bose-Einstein condensates

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Huang, Y P ^a   Moore, M G ^a  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MAGNETOELECTRIC EFFECTS; PHOTONS; RESONANCE; STEAM CONDENSATE;

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATE; DOUBLE-WALL POTENTIAL; FESHBACH RESONANCE;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 33144456132     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.73.023606     Document Type: Article

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