Integrated Mach-Zehnder interferometer for Bose-Einstein condensates

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Berrada, T ^a   Van Frank, S ^a   Bucker R ^a   Schumm, T ^a   Schaff, J F ^a   Schmiedmayer, J ^a  

^a TU WIEN   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONDENSATE; INTERFEROMETER; NONLINEARITY; PRECISION; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

ARTICLE; ATOM; BOSE EINSTEIN CONDENSATION; CHEMICAL REACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION; INTERFEROMETER; INTERFEROMETRY; MACH ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETER; NONLINEAR SYSTEM;

EID: 84887064238     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3077     Document Type: Article

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