Self-trapping of Bose-Einstein condensates expanding into shallow optical lattices

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Rosenkranz, Matthias ^a,b   Jaksch, Dieter ^d   Yin Lim, Fong ^c   Bao, Weizhu ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b KEBLE COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATION; CRYSTAL LATTICES; NUMBER THEORY; OPTICAL MATERIALS; STEAM CONDENSERS;

AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY (APS); ANALYTICAL DESCRIPTION; B LOCH WAVES; BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATE (BEC); BREAKDOWN (BD); FINITE TIME; FINITE WIDTH; INTERACTION STRENGTHS; LATTICE (CO); LATTICE DEPTH; OPTICAL LATTICES; OPTICAL LATTICES (OL); SELF TRAPPING (ST);

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 45249086566     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.77.063607     Document Type: Article

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