Coherent disintegration and stability of vortices in trapped Bose condensates

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 1533-1537

  Pu, H ^a,b   Law, C K ^b   Eberly, J H ^b   Bigelow, N P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

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EID: 0001118153     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.59.1533     Document Type: Article

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