A trapped single ion inside a Bose-Einstein condensate

Nature

Volumn 464, Issue 7287, 2010, Pages 388-391

  Zipkes, Christoph ^a   Palzer, Stefan ^a   Sias, Carlo ^a   Köhl, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONDENSATE; ION; PARTICLE MOTION; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; MAGNETIC FIELD; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

EID: 77949672386     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08865     Document Type: Article

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