Trap-modulation spectroscopy of the Mott-insulator transition in optical lattices

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Lignier, H ^a   Zenesini, A ^a,b   Ciampini, D ^a,b   Morsch, O ^a   Arimondo, E ^a   Montangero, S ^a,c   Pupillo, G ^d,e   Fazio, R ^a  

^a INFM   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^e ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLD ATOMIC GAS; COMPRESSIBILITY MEASUREMENTS; EXPERIMENTAL DATUM; MODULATION SPECTROSCOPIES; MOTT INSULATORS; MOTT-INSULATOR TRANSITIONS; ONE-DIMENSIONAL; OPTICAL LATTICES; QUANTUM PHASE TRANSITIONS; RENORMALIZATION GROUPS; THREE DIMENSIONS; TIME DEPENDENT DENSITY MATRIXES; TIME-OF-FLIGHT MEASUREMENTS;

CRYSTAL LATTICES; MOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY; OPTICAL MATERIALS; PARTICLE OPTICS;

PHASE TRANSITIONS;

EID: 64649083753     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.79.041601     Document Type: Article

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