Probing quantum and thermal noise in an interacting many-body system

Nature Physics

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 489-495

  Hofferberth, S ^a,b,c   Lesanovsky, I ^b,d   Schumm, T ^a   Imambekov, A ^c,e   Gritsev, V ^c   Demler, E ^c   Schmiedmayer, J ^a,b  

^a TU WIEN   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^e Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; QUANTUM THEORY;

ATOMIC CONDENSATES; EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS; INTERFERENCE FRINGE; MEASUREMENT PROCESS; ONE-DIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS; QUANTUM FLUCTUATION; QUANTUM MECHANICAL; QUASI LONG RANGE ORDERS;

QUANTUM NOISE;

EID: 44649102337     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys941     Document Type: Article

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