Direct observation of second-order atom tunnelling

Nature

Volumn 448, Issue 7157, 2007, Pages 1029-1032

  Folling S ^a   Trotzky, S ^a   Cheinet, P ^a   Feld, M ^a   Saers, R ^b   Widera, A ^a,c   Muller T ^a,d   Bloch, I ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c INSTITUT FÜR ANGEWANDTE PHYSIK   (Germany)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER; ELECTRON; MOBILITY; QUANTUM MECHANICS; TUNNELING;

ARTICLE; ATOM; ATOMIC PARTICLE; DYNAMICS; ELECTRON; FILTER; MAGNETISM; PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 34548359240     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature06112     Document Type: Article

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