Ultracold dipolar gas in an optical lattice: The fate of metastable states

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Trefzger, C ^a   Menotti, C ^a,b   Lewenstein, M ^a  

^a ICFO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL LATTICES; OPTICAL MATERIALS;

DIPOLAR BOSONS; DIPOLAR GASES; DIPOLE INTERACTIONS; INSTANTON THEORIES; METASTABLE; METASTABLE STATES; OPTICAL LATTICES; QUANTUM LEVELS; QUANTUM MEMORIES; SUPERFLUID STATES; TRAPPING POTENTIALS; ULTRACOLD;

MODULATION;

EID: 54049102093     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.78.043604     Document Type: Article

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