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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

The k•p theory of Bose-Einstein Condensates in optical lattices

Wen–Feng Hsieh, Yin-Ru Chen, Szu-Cheng Cheng

Published Jan 1, 2004• 0 citations
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Abstract

The localized states of a BEC for either attractive or repulsive atom interactions are products of the Bloch functions and soliton envelope functions of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation that agree well with the numerical ones.
DOI
10.1364/iqec.2004.itui18

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