Beam quality of a nonideal atom laser

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 96, Issue 7, 2006, Pages

  Riou, J F ^a   Guerin, W ^a   Le Coq, Y ^a   Fauquembergue, M ^a   Josse, V ^a   Bouyer, P ^a   Aspect, A ^a  

^a UNIV PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOM-LASER PROPAGATION; BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATE (BEC); FRESNEL-KIRCHHOFF INTEGRAL; NONINTERACTING ATOM;

DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LASER BEAMS; QUANTUM THEORY;

ATOMIC PHYSICS;

EID: 33644551233     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.070404     Document Type: Article

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