Density correlations in cold atomic gases: Atomic speckles in the presence of disorder

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Henseler, Peter ^a   Shapiro, Boris ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATION; DENSITY (OPTICAL); FERMI LEVEL; MEAN FIELD THEORY;

COLD ATOMIC GASES; DENSITY CORRELATIONS;

WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 41449099972     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.77.033624     Document Type: Article

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