The 'Higgs' amplitude mode at the two-dimensional superfluid/Mott insulator transition

Nature

Volumn 487, Issue 7408, 2012, Pages 454-458

  Endres, Manuel ^a   Fukuhara, Takeshi ^a   Pekker, David ^b   Cheneau, Marc ^a   Schauß, Peter ^a   Gross, Christian ^a   Demler, Eugene ^c   Kuhr, Stefan ^a,d   Bloch, Immanuel ^a,e  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE; INSULATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARTICLE MOTION; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; SYMMETRY;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; HIGGS AMPLITUDE; INSULATOR ELEMENT; LIQUID; MICROSCOPY; PHASE TRANSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; QUASI EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; SUPERFLUID;

EID: 84864245302     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11255     Document Type: Article

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