Phase coherence and superfluid-insulator transition in a disordered Bose-Einstein condensate

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Chen, Yong P ^a,b,c   Hitchcock, J ^a   Dries, D ^a   Junker, M ^a   Welford, C ^a   Hulet, R G ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC INSULATORS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PHASE MEASUREMENT; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATE (BEC); DIPOLE EXCITATIONS; OPTICAL POTENTIAL; PHASE COHERENCE;

ATOMIC PHYSICS;

EID: 41549159903     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.77.033632     Document Type: Article

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