Wannier-Stark ladders in driven optical lattices

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 061402-061401

  Gluck M ^a   Hankel, M ^a   Kolovsky, A R ^a,b   Korsch, H J ^a  

^a University of Koblenz Landau   (Germany)

^b KIRENSKY INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ATOMS; FUNCTIONS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PROBABILITY; QUANTUM THEORY; RELAXATION PROCESSES; RESONANCE;

OPTICAL LATTICES; SODIUM ATOMS; WANNIER-STARK LADDERS;

GROUND STATE;

EID: 4243831592     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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