Josephson oscillation and transition to self-trapping for Bose-Einstein condensates in a triple-well trap

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Liu, Bin ^a,b   Fu, Li Bin ^b   Yang, Shi Ping ^a   Liu, Jie ^b  

^a HEBEI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS AND COMPUTATIONAL MATHEMATICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC PHYSICS; ELECTRON TUNNELING; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS;

ATOMIC INTERACTION; JOSEPHSON OSCILLATIONS; ZERO-POINT ENERGY DIFFERENCE;

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATION;

EID: 33847659305     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.75.033601     Document Type: Article

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