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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

Realization of Bose-Einstein condensation in higher Bloch bands of an optical honeycomb lattice

Tobias Klafka, Alexander Ilin, Julius Seeger, Phillip S. Gross, K. Sengstock, Juliette Simonet

Published Jun 2, 2020• 2 citations
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