Creating vortex rings and three-dimensional skyrmions in Bose-Einstein condensates

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 18, 2001, Pages 3934-3937

  Ruostekoski, J ^a   Anglin, J R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; CRYOGENICS; ELECTROMAGNETISM; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATE; THREE DIMENSIONAL SKYRMIONS; VORTEX RING;

FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 0035971752     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.3934     Document Type: Article

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