Coupling a single electron to a Bose-Einstein condensate

Nature

Volumn 502, Issue 7473, 2013, Pages 664-667

  Balewski, Jonathan B ^a   Krupp, Alexander T ^a   Gaj, Anita ^a   Peter, David ^a   Büchler, Hans Peter ^a   Löw, Robert ^a   Hofferberth, Sebastian ^a   Pfau, Tilman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER; ELECTRON; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GAS CONDENSATE; ORBIT DETERMINATION; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

ARTICLE; ATOM; BOSE EINSTEIN CONDENSATE; CHEMICAL REACTION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRON; ELECTRON COUPLING; LIQUID; OSCILLATION; PHONON; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 84886820875     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature12592     Document Type: Article

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