Universality in three-and four-body bound states of ultracold atoms

Science

Volumn 326, Issue 5960, 2009, Pages 1683-1686

  Pollack, Scott E ^a   Dries, Daniel ^a   Hulet, Randall G ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LITHIUM;

CHEMICAL BINDING; FUNDAMENTAL PARTICLE; PHYSICS; SPECTRUM;

ARTICLE; ATOM; COLD; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ENERGY; HUMAN; KINETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 72949123726     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1182840     Document Type: Article

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