Predicted signatures of rotating Bose-Einstein condensates

Nature

Volumn 397, Issue 6717, 1999, Pages 327-329

  Butts, D A ^a   Rokhsar, D S ^a  

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ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; GAS ANALYSIS; HYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION; VELOCITY;

EID: 0001614996     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/16865     Document Type: Article

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