A glimpse of quantum phenomena in optical lattices

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 370, Issue 1969, 2012, Pages 2916-2929

  Vishveshwara, Smitha ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Disorder; Honeycomb lattice; Optical lattices; Quasi periodicity; Superfluid Mott insulator physics

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL MATERIALS;

ATOMIC GAS; ATOMIC SYSTEM; CONDENSED MATTER; DISORDER; HEXAGONAL LATTICE; HONEYCOMB LATTICES; INTERACTING BOSONS; MANY-BODY; OPTICAL LATTICES; QUANTUM PHENOMENA; QUASI-PERIODIC; QUASI-PERIODICITIES;

CRYSTAL LATTICES;

NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; QUANTUM THEORY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; LIGHT; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NANOSTRUCTURES; QUANTUM THEORY; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 84861924242     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2011.0248     Document Type: Review

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