Decoherence of cold atomic gases in magnetic microtraps

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 68, Issue 4 B, 2003, Pages

  Schroll, C ^a   Belzig, W ^a   Bruder, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ELECTRON SCATTERING; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; ELECTRON TRAPS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; HAMILTONIANS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; QUANTUM THEORY; RANDOM PROCESSES;

COLD ATOMIC GAS; MAGNETIC MICROTRAPS; VON NEUMANN EQUATION;

ATOMIC PHYSICS;

EID: 8444243014     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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