Dropping cold quantum gases on Earth over long times and large distances

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 76, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Nandi, G ^a   Walser, R ^a   Kajari, E ^a   Schleich, W P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATION; EARTH (PLANET); FERMIONS; WAVE PACKETS;

EXTERNAL POTENTIALS; NUMERICAL GRID; QUANTUM GASES; TAYLOR EXPANSION;

ATOMIC PHYSICS;

EID: 37549009499     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.76.063617     Document Type: Article

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