Directed coherent transport due to the Bloch oscillation in two dimensions

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Zhang, J M ^a,b   Liu, W M ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOCH OSCILLATIONS; COHERENT TRANSPORTS; COLD ATOMS; EXTERNAL FORCE; HIGHER DIMENSIONS; OPTICAL LATTICES; PHOTONIC LATTICE; STATIC FORCES; TIME-SCALES; TWO-DIMENSION;

PHOTONICS; SOLID STATE PHYSICS; WAVES;

WAVE PACKETS;

EID: 77956317320     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.82.025602     Document Type: Article

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