Reentrant stability of Bose-Einstein-condensate standing-wave patterns

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Kalas, Ryan M ^a,b   Solenov, Dmitry ^a,b   Timmermans, Eddy ^a  

^a CENTER FOR NONLINEAR STUDIES   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATES; BOUND STATE; COHERENCE LENGTHS; DYNAMICAL STABILITY; EXTERNAL POTENTIAL; GENERAL TRENDS; GROSS-PITAEVSKII EQUATION; KINK STATE; POTENTIAL WELLS; SINGLE PARTICLE; SQUARE-WELL POTENTIALS; STANDING WAVE PATTERNS; THREE DIMENSIONS;

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATION; STABILITY; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; STEAM CONDENSERS;

WAVE FUNCTIONS;

EID: 77953187107     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.81.053620     Document Type: Article

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