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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

Realization of Bohr-like circular wavepackets

J. J. Mestayer, B. Wyker, F. B. Dunning, Carlos O Reinhold, Satoshi Yoshida, Joachim Burgd orfer

Published May 28, 2008• 0 citations
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