Effect of even and odd numbers of atoms in a condensate inside a double-well potential

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Lu R ^a   Zhang, M ^b   Zhu, J L ^a   You, L ^c  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; SPIN DYNAMICS;

AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY (APS); ATOM NUMBERS; BERRY PHASE; DOUBLE-WELL POTENTIALS; LARGE SPIN; MACROSCOPIC QUANTUM; MACROSCOPIC QUANTUM COHERENCE (MQC); ODD NUMBERS; SPIN MODELS; TUNNEL SPLITTING;

ATOMIC PHYSICS;

EID: 48049090932     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.78.011605     Document Type: Article

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