Probing a Bose-Einstein condensate with an atom laser

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 18, 2008, Pages 13893-13900

  Miring, D ^a   Robins, N P ^a   Figl, C ^a   Close, J D ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATION; GROUND STATE; PULSED LASERS; SHEAR WAVES; STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATES; HYPERFINE GROUND STATE; INCIDENT ATOMS; LOW ENERGY COLLISIONS; PROBE PULSE; S-WAVE SCATTERING LENGTHS;

ATOM LASERS;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAS; LASER; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GASES; LASERS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 51149100760     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.013893     Document Type: Article

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