Multimode interference: Highly regular pattern formation in quantum wave-packet evolution

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 321011-321016

  Kaplan, A E ^a   Marzoli, I ^b,d   Lamb Jr , W E ^c   Schleich, W P ^b  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

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