Tomography of correlation functions for ultracold atoms via time-of-flight images

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Zhang, Wei ^a,b   Duan, L M ^b  

^a RENMIN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION FUNCTION; DENSITY DISTRIBUTIONS; QUANTITATIVE LEVEL; QUASI-ONE-DIMENSIONAL TRAPS; SINGLE-PARTICLE CORRELATION; SPACE CORRELATION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TIME OF FLIGHT; ULTRACOLD ATOMS;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; TOMOGRAPHY;

ATOMS;

EID: 71549155930     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.80.063614     Document Type: Article

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