Nonadiabatic loading of a Bose-Einstein condensate into the ground state of an optical lattice

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 4-

  Mellish, A S ^a   Duffy, G ^a   McKenzie, C ^a   Geursen, R ^a   Wilson, A C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

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EID: 84880399052     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.68.051601     Document Type: Article

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