Stability of attractive Bose-Einstein condensates

Journal of Statistical Physics

Volumn 101, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 731-746

  Zhang, Jian ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b SICHUAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Attractive Bose Einstein condensates; Ground state; Nonlinear Schr dinger equation; Stability; Variational arguments

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034310026     PISSN: 00224715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1026437923987     Document Type: Article

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