Anomalous Bloch oscillations in one-dimensional parity-breaking periodic potentials

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Pettini, Giulio ^a   Modugno, Michele ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

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

^c BASQUE FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BERRY'S PHASE; BLOCH OSCILLATIONS; BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATES; DOUBLE WELL; LINEAR POTENTIAL; MODULATION PARAMETERS; OPTICAL LATTICES; PARITY BREAKING; PER UNIT; PERIODIC POTENTIALS; SEMICLASSICAL DYNAMICS;

STATISTICAL MECHANICS; STEAM CONDENSERS;

SOLID STATE PHYSICS;

EID: 79251501992     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.83.013619     Document Type: Article

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