Stationary states of a rotating Bose-Einstein condensate: Routes to vortex nucleation

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 20, 2001, Pages 4443-4446

  Madison, K W ^a   Chevy, F ^a   Bretin, V ^a   Dalibard, J ^a  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUCLEATION; THERMODYNAMICS;

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATES (BEC); VORTEX NUCLEATION;

CONDENSATION;

EID: 0035858573     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.4443     Document Type: Article

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