Emergence of bloch bands in a rotating bose-einstein condensate

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 22, 2004, Pages

  Saito, Hiroki ^a   Ueda, Masahito ^b  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; BLOCH BANDS; BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATE (BEC); VORTEX STATE;

ATOMIC PHYSICS; BAND STRUCTURE; CRYSTAL LATTICES; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OSCILLATIONS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; QUANTUM THEORY; SOLITONS; TIME VARYING SYSTEMS;

HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS;

EID: 37649028514     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.220402     Document Type: Article

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