Monopole core instability and alice rings in spinor bose-einstein condensates

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 19, 2003, Pages

  Ruostekoski, J ^a   Anglin, J R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; GROUND STATE; HAMILTONIANS; LASER BEAMS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SOLITONS; SUPERFLUID HELIUM; VECTORS;

BOSE EINSTEIN CONDENSATES; HALF QUANTUM VORTEX RING; HOOFT-POLYAKOV MONOPOLE; MAGNETIC TRAPPING POTENTIAL; PAULI SPIN MATRICES; SPINOR WAVE FUNCTION; SPLIT STEP METHOD;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0347477223     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.190402     Document Type: Article

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