Quantum reflection from a solid surface at normal incidence

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 22, 2004, Pages

  Pasquini, T A ^a   Shin, Y ^a   Sanner, C ^a   Saba, M ^a   Schirotzek, A ^a   Pritchard, D E ^a   Ketterle, W ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATES; QUANTUM REFLECTION; REFLECTION PROBABILITY; SOLID SURFACES;

MAGNETIZATION; MIRRORS; OSCILLATIONS; POTENTIAL ENERGY; PROBABILITY; REFLECTION;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 37649029546     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.223201     Document Type: Article

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