Coreless vortex formation in a spinor Bose-Einstein condensate

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 14, 2003, Pages

  Leanhardt, A E ^a   Shin, Y ^a   Kielpinski, D ^a   Pritchard, D E ^a   Ketterle, W ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; FERROMAGNETISM; HOLE TRAPS; KINETIC ENERGY; LASER BEAMS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIZATION; SODIUM; VORTEX FLOW;

CORELESS VORTEX; MAGNETIC TRAP; SPIN STATES; SPINOR BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATES;

SUPERFLUID HELIUM;

EID: 0038542045     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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