Investigating polaron transitions with polar molecules

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 110, Issue 22, 2013, Pages

  Herrera, Felipe ^a,b,c   Madison, Kirk W ^a   Krems, Roman V ^a   Berciu, Mona ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTERNAL ELECTRIC FIELD; POLAR MOLECULES; POLARON MODELS; QUANTUM SIMULATORS; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; SHARP TRANSITION; STIMULATED RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; ULTRACOLD MOLECULES;

COUPLINGS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; MOLECULES; PHASE DIAGRAMS; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;

POLARONS;

EID: 84878393699     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.223002     Document Type: Article

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