Evidence for orbital superfluidity in the P-band of a bipartite optical square lattice

Nature Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 147-153

  Wirth, Georg ^a   Ölschl̈ger, Matthias ^a   Hemmerich, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL LATTICES; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS);

COMPLEX-VALUED; MOMENTUM SPECTRA; ORBITAL DEGREE OF FREEDOM; ORDER PARAMETER; SQUARE LATTICES; STRUCTURAL DIVERSITY; SUPERFLUID ORDER PARAMETER; TIME REVERSAL SYMMETRIES;

OPTICAL LATTICES;

EID: 79551628814     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1857     Document Type: Article

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