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Matter Waves in Anharmonic Periodic Potentials

Date

Authors

Alexander, Tristram J

Salerno, Mario

Ostrovskaya, Elena

Kivshar, Yuri

Publisher

American Physical Society

Abstract

We study anharmonic (optical or magnetic) periodic potentials and demonstrate that they may exhibit unusual features in the band-gap spectra and the nature of the matter-wave Bloch waves and solitons. We reveal that the band gaps may be strongly modified

Keywords

Keywords: Atomic physics; Energy gap; Harmonic analysis; Molecular dynamics; Anharmonic periodic potentials; Band gap spectra; Gap edge Bloch waves; Matter wave Bloch waves; Solitons

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/29721

Collections

Open Access Research

Source

Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics

Type

Journal article

DOI

10.1103/PhysRevA.77.043607

Restricted until

2037-12-31

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