Probing the superfluid-to-Mott insulator transition at the single-atom level

Science

Volumn 329, Issue 5991, 2010, Pages 547-550

  Bakr, W S ^a   Peng, A ^a   Tai, M E ^a   Ma, R ^a   Simon, J ^a   Gillen, J I ^a   Folling S ^a,b   Pollet, L ^a   Greiner, M ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; ENTROPY; INSULATION; OPTICAL METHOD; OPTICAL PROPERTY; PHASE TRANSITION; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

ARTICLE; ATOM; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INSULATOR ELEMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

EID: 77955103235     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1192368     Document Type: Article

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