Klein tunneling and Dirac potentials in trapped ions

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Casanova, J ^a   Garcia Ripoll J J ^b   Gerritsma, R ^c,d   Roos, C F ^c,d   Solano, E ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE FÍSICA FUNDAMENTAL   (Spain)

^c ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^e BASQUE FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIRAC EQUATIONS; DIRAC PARTICLES; ENERGY COMPONENTS; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; INTERNAL STATE; POPULATION TRANSFER; QUANTUM SIMULATIONS; RELATIVISTIC EFFECTS; REPULSIVE POTENTIALS; TRAPPED ION;

LINEAR EQUATIONS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY;

IONS;

EID: 77956331115     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.82.020101     Document Type: Article

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