Mesoscopic phenomena in Bose-Einstein systems: Persistent currents, population oscillations, and quantal phases

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 436091-436099

  Lyanda Geller, Yuli ^a   Goldbart, Paul M ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

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