Two-dimensional dynamics of ultracold atoms in optical lattices

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Snoek, Michiel ^a   Hofstetter, Walter ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HARMONIC ANALYSIS; LASER BEAMS; TOPOLOGY; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

HARMONIC TRAPPING POTENTIAL; OPTICAL LATTICES; SQUARE LATTICE; ULTRACOLD ATOMS;

CRYSTAL LATTICES;

EID: 36148945655     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.76.051603     Document Type: Article

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