Radio-frequency association of efimov trimers

Science

Volumn 330, Issue 6006, 2010, Pages 940-944

  Lompe, Thomas ^a,b,c   Ottenstein, Timo B ^a,b,c   Serwane, Friedhelm ^a,b,c   Wenz, Andre N ^a,b   Zürn, Gerhard ^a,b   Jochim, Selim ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR KERNPHYSIK   (Germany)

^c GSI HELMHOLTZZENTRUM FÜR SCHWERIONENFORSCHUNG GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIMER; TRIMER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CHEMICAL BINDING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

ARTICLE; BINDING KINETICS; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; COLLISIONALLY ACTIVATED DISSOCIATION; EFIMOV; ENERGY RESOURCE; FERMION; MAGNETIC FIELD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; RADIATION FIELD; RADIOFREQUENCY; STRENGTH;

EID: 78149396321     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1193148     Document Type: Article

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