Delayed-action interaction and spin-orbit coupling between solitons

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 799-802

  Musslimani, Ziad H ^a   Soljačić, Marin ^b   Segev, Mordechai ^a,c   Christodoulides, Demetrios N ^d  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Princeton University   (United States)

^d Lehigh University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAS CONDENSATES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; VECTORS;

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATES (BEC); GROSS-PITAEVSKII EQUATIONS; SCHRODINGER EQUATIONS;

SOLITONS;

EID: 0342538621     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.799     Document Type: Article

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