Interference of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a hard-wall trap: From the nonlinear Talbot effect to the formation of vorticity

Physical Review A. Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 436131-436137

  Ruostekoski, J ^a,b   Kneer, B ^b   Schleich, W P ^b   Rempe, G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTRON TRAPS; GAS DYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; QUANTUM THEORY; SOLITONS; VORTEX FLOW;

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATES (BEC); HARD-WALL TRAPS;

ATOMIC PHYSICS;

EID: 0035307550     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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