Time-dependent quantum many-body theory of identical bosons in a double well: Early-time ballistic interferences of fragmented and number entangled states

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Masiello, David J ^a,b   Reinhardt, William P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BALLISTICS; BOSONS; CORRELATION METHODS; DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; HAMILTONIANS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

ATOMIC CORRELATION; FOCK SPACE; MEAN-FIELD EFFECTS; WAVE DYNAMICS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 35248856052     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.76.043612     Document Type: Article

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