Effect of the Casimir-Polder force on the collective oscillations of a trapped Bose-Einstein condensate

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 70, Issue 5 B, 2004, Pages

  Antezza, Mauro ^a   Pitaevskii, Lev P ^a,b   Stringari, Sandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b KAPITZA INSTITUTE FOR PHYSICAL PROBLEMS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; GAS CONDENSATES; HAMILTONIANS; OSCILLATIONS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PHOTONS; SAPPHIRE;

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATES (BEC); CASIMIR-POLDER FORCE; COLLECTIVE OSCILLATIONS; DENSITY PROFILES;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 37649032094     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.70.053619     Document Type: Article

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