Quasiperiodically driven ratchets for cold atoms

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 96, Issue 24, 2006, Pages

  Gommers, R ^a   Denisov, S ^b   Renzoni, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK KOMPLEXER SYSTEME   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TIME VARYING SYSTEMS; TRANSPORTATION;

COLD ATOMS; QUASIPERIODICITY; SYMMETRIES;

ATOMIC PHYSICS;

EID: 33745316517     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.240604     Document Type: Article

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