Interferometry with Bose-Einstein condensates in microgravity

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 110, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Muntinga H ^a   Ahlers, H ^b   Krutzik, M ^c   Wenzlawski, A ^d   Arnold, S ^e   Becker, D ^b   Bongs, K ^f   Dittus, H ^a   Duncker, H ^d   Gaaloul, N ^b   Gherasim, C ^g   Giese, E ^e   Grzeschik, C ^c   Hansch T W ^h   Hellmig, O ^d   Herr, W ^b   Herrmann, S ^a   Kajari, E ^e,i   Kleinert, S ^e   Lammerzahl C ^a   Lewoczko Adamczyk, W ^c   Malcolm, J ^f   Meyer, N ^f   Nolte, R ^g   Peters, A ^c,j   Popp, M ^b   Reichel, J ^k   Roura, A ^e   Rudolph, J ^b   Schiemangk, M ^c,j   Schneider, M ^g   Seidel, S T ^b   Sengstock, K ^d   Tamma, V ^e   Valenzuela, T ^f   Vogel, A ^d   Walser, R ^g   Wendrich, T ^b   Windpassinger, P ^d   Zeller, W ^e   Van Zoest, T ^a   Ertmer, W ^b   Schleich, W P ^e   Rasel, E M ^b   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^f Midlands Ultracold Atom Research Centre   (United Kingdom)

^g DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

ⁱ SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^j LEIBNIZ INSTITUT FÜR HÖCHSTFREQUENZTECHNIK   (Germany)

^k CNRS   (France)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRIC MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETER; ATOM INTERFEROMETER; BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATES; COHERENCE PROPERTIES; DOUBLE SLITS; FAR FIELD; FREE FALL; FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS; GENERAL RELATIVITY; HIGH POTENTIAL; INTERFERENCE PATTERNS; LINEAR SCALING; MACROSCOPIC DOMAINS; QUANTUM GAS;

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATION; MICROGRAVITY; MICROGRAVITY PROCESSING; QUANTUM THEORY; RELATIVITY; STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 84874493952     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.093602     Document Type: Article

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