Macroscopic self-trapping in Bose-Einstein condensates: Analysis of a dynamical quantum phase transition

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Julia Diaz B ^a   Dagnino, D ^a   Lewenstein, M ^b,c   Martorell, J ^a   Polls, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^c ICFO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATES; DELOCALIZED STATE; DOUBLE-WELL POTENTIAL; DYNAMICAL TRANSITION; JOSEPHSON OSCILLATIONS; QUANTUM FLUCTUATION; QUANTUM PHASE TRANSITIONS; SELF-TRAPPING; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES; TWO-REGIME;

BIOELECTRIC PHENOMENA; MEAN FIELD THEORY; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; STEAM CONDENSERS;

PHASE TRANSITIONS;

EID: 77249137320     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.81.023615     Document Type: Article

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