Repulsively bound atom pairs in an optical lattice

Nature

Volumn 441, Issue 7095, 2006, Pages 853-856

  Winkler, K ^a   Thalhammer, G ^a   Lang, F ^a   Grimm, R ^a,b   Hecker Denschlag, J ^a   Daley, A J ^a,b   Kantian, A ^a,b   Buchler H P ^a,b   Zoller, P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL BONDS; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; CRYSTAL LATTICES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RUBIDIUM; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

BOSE-HUBBARD MODELS; MOMENTUM DISTRIBUTIONS; OPTICAL LATTICES; ULTRACOLD BOSONIC ATOMS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

RUBIDIUM;

OPTICAL PROPERTY; PARTICLE SIZE; RUBIDIUM; SPECTROSCOPY;

ARTICLE; ATOM; BINDING KINETICS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENERGY TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SPECTROSCOPY; THEORETICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 33745189793     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04918     Document Type: Article

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