Degenerate Fermi gas in a combined harmonic-lattice potential

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Blakie, P B ^a   Bezett, A ^a   Buonsante, P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC PHYSICS; CRYSTAL LATTICES; DENSITY OF GASES; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; QUANTUM THEORY; THERMAL EFFECTS;

DEGENERACY TEMPERATURE; FERMI GASES; OPTICAL LATTICES;

FREE ENERGY;

EID: 34347325041     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.75.063609     Document Type: Article

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