Disruption of reflecting Bose-Einstein condensates due to interatomic interactions and quantum noise

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Scott, R G ^a   Hutchinson, D A W ^a   Gardiner, C W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DAMPING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; SCATTERING;

ATOM DENSITY; BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATES; INTERATOMIC INTERACTIONS; POTENTIAL BARRIERS; QUANTUM NOISE;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 33750700487     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.74.053605     Document Type: Article

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