Emergent crystallinity and frustration with Bose-Einstein condensates in multimodecavities

Nature Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 845-850

  Gopalakrishnan, Sarang ^a,b   Lev, Benjamin L ^a   Goldbart, Paul M ^a,b  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOM LASERS; CRYSTALLINITY; OPTICAL LATTICES; PUMPING (LASER); QUANTUM THEORY; STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATES; CONDENSED MATTER; FUNCTIONAL INTEGRAL FORMALISM; MANY-BODY SYSTEMS; MULTIMODE CAVITIES; OPTICAL CAVITIES; SINGLE MODE CAVITY; TRANSLATIONAL SYMMETRY;

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATION;

EID: 70449526795     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1403     Document Type: Article

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