Nonlinear evolution of the interacting Gaussian-shaped Matter Waves

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 10918-10926

  Chen, Jun ^a   Zhang, Zhang ^a   Liu, Yunxian ^b   Lin, Qiang ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINA JILIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS;

ANALYTIC FORMULA; COHERENT MATTER WAVES; EVOLUTION CHARACTERISTICS; GAUSSIANS; MATTER WAVES; NONLINEAR EVOLUTIONS; REPULSIVE INTERACTIONS; WEAK INTERACTIONS;

OPTICS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LASER; LIGHT; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION SCATTERING; STATISTICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LASERS; LIGHT; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 47849094665     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.010918     Document Type: Article

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