Tuning the scattering length with an optically induced feshbach resonance

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 12, 2004, Pages

  Theis, M ^a   Thalhammer, G ^a   Winkler, K ^a   Hellwig, M ^a   Ruff, G ^a,c   Grimm, R ^a,b   Denschlag, J Hecker ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^c BATES COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAGG SPECTROSCOPY; FESHBACH RESONANCES; PHOTOASSOCIATION SPECTROSCOPY; SCATTERING LENGTHS;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; LASER BEAMS; MAGNETOOPTICAL EFFECTS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; OPTIMIZATION; QUANTUM THEORY; RESONANCE; TUNING;

LIGHT SCATTERING;

EID: 84862442783     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.123001     Document Type: Article

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