Photonic analogue of Josephson effect in a dual-species optical-lattice cavity

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 14586-14597

  Lei, Soi Chan ^a,b   Ng, Tai Kai ^b   Lee, Ray Kuang ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; GROUND STATE; HUBBARD MODEL; JOSEPHSON JUNCTION DEVICES; MEAN FIELD THEORY; MOTT INSULATORS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; QUANTUM OPTICS; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

BOSE HUBBARD MODEL; FINITE TEMPERATURES; MOTT INSULATOR PHASE; QUANTUM INFORMATION PROCESS; QUANTUM PHASE TRANSITIONS; SELF-CONSISTENT MEAN-FIELD THEORIES; TWO-SPECIES MODELS; WEAKLY COUPLED SUPERCONDUCTORS;

OPTICAL LATTICES;

EID: 79956331806     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.014586     Document Type: Article

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