Hydrodynamic approach to vortex lifetimes in trapped Bose condensates

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 063612-063611

  Lundh, Emil ^a   Ao, P ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; APPROXIMATION THEORY; CONDENSATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; HYDRODYNAMICS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; TWO DIMENSIONAL; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATE; ELEMENTARY EXCITATION FREQUENCY; HARMONIC TRAPPING POTENTIAL; NONLINEAR SCHRODINGER LAGRANGIAN; OFF CENTER VORTEX; SUPERFLUID DENSITY DISTRIBUTION; THOMAS-FERMI APPROXIMATION;

GASES;

EID: 0033685719     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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