Vortex precession in Bose-Einstein condensates: observations with filled and empty cores

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 14, 2000, Pages 2857-2860

  Anderson, B P ^a,b   Haljan, P C ^b   Wieman, C E ^b   Cornell, E A ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATES; CONDENSATE DENSITY; CONTINUOUS QUANTUM PHASE WINDING; VORTEX PRECESSION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GROUND STATE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PHASE SPACE METHODS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; STATE SPACE METHODS; SUPERFLUID HELIUM;

ELECTRON GAS;

EID: 0034298964     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.2857     Document Type: Article

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