Ultracold atoms in an optical lattice with dynamically variable periodicity

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Al Assam, S ^a   Williams, R A ^a   Foot, C J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LATTICE SITES; LATTICE SPACING; NUMERICAL CALCULATION; OPTICAL LATTICES; QUANTUM SIMULATIONS; RAMP TIME; RESOLUTION LIMITS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL OPTICAL LATTICES; ULTRACOLD ATOMS;

CRYSTAL LATTICES; OPTICAL MATERIALS; RUBIDIUM;

ATOMS;

EID: 77956260128     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.82.021604     Document Type: Article

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