Vortex nucleation in Bose-Einstein condensates in time-dependent traps

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 636041-6360410

  Lundh, Emil ^a   Martikainen, J P ^a,b,c   Suominen, Kalle Antti ^a,c  

^a HELSINKI INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Finland)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FREQUENCIES; NUCLEATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; VORTEX FLOW;

VORTEX NUCLEATION;

GAS CONDENSATES;

EID: 0041430875     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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