Production of mesoscopic superpositions with ultracold atoms

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Ng, H T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATION; MEASUREMENT THEORY;

MESOSCOPIC SUPERPOSITIONS; ULTRACOLD ATOMS;

ATOMIC PHYSICS;

EID: 40949126916     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.77.033617     Document Type: Article

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