Fock-space WKB method for the boson Josephson model describing a Bose-Einstein condensate trapped in a double-well potential

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Shchesnovich, V S ^a   Trippenbach, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO ABC   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC PHYSICS; ATOMS; BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATION; COMPOSITE STRUCTURES; GROUND STATE; STEAM CONDENSERS; TURBULENT FLOW;

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATE; CLASSICAL LIMITS; DOUBLE-WELL POTENTIALS; DOUBLE-WELL TRAP; FIXE D POINTS; FOCK SPACES; JOSEPHSON; LOWER ENERGIES; MACROSCOPIC QUANTUM SELF-TRAPPING; MEAN FIELDS; MEAN-FIELD APPROACHES; PHASE DISPERSIONS; PHASE FLUCTUATIONS; PLANCK CONSTANTS; QUANTUM POTENTIALS; QUANTUM STATES; SELF-TRAPPING; SINGLE PARTICLES; SYMMETRY BREAKING; WKB METHOD;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 49249126798     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.78.023611     Document Type: Article

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