Fractional-photon-assisted tunneling in an optical superlattice: Large contribution to particle transfer

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 83, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Esmann, Martin ^a   Teichmann, Niklas ^a   Weiss, Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DINGER EQUATION; DOUBLE WELL; EXPERIMENTAL SETUP; MODEL-BASED OPC; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; OPTICAL SUPERLATTICE; PARAMETER RANGE; PARTICLE TRANSFER; PERTURBATION THEORY; PHOTON-ASSISTED TUNNELING; QUANTUM DYNAMICS; ROTATING WAVE APPROXIMATIONS; TIME-DEPENDENT; TUNNELING RESONANCES; ULTRACOLD ATOMS;

PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; QUANTUM THEORY; RESONANCE; SUPERLATTICES; WELLS;

PHOTONS;

EID: 79961046259     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.83.063634     Document Type: Article

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