Three-body interactions with cold polar molecules

Nature Physics

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 726-731

  Buchler H P ^a   Micheli, A ^b   Zoller, P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS; GROUND STATE; MOLECULES; OPTICAL LATTICES;

COLD POLAR MOLECULES; EXTERNAL FIELDS; NEAREST NEIGHBOUR; POLAR MOLECULES; REAL PHYSICAL SYSTEMS; THREE-BODY INTERACTION; TOPOLOGICAL PHASIS; TWO-BODY INTERACTIONS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 34948815581     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys678     Document Type: Article

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