Vortex Lattice Formation in Bose-Einstein Condensates

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 204031-204034

  Lobo, Carlos ^a   Sinatra, Alice ^a   Castin, Yvan ^a  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CRYSTALLIZATION; LATTICE CONSTANTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OSCILLATIONS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; THERMAL EFFECTS; TURBULENCE; VORTEX FLOW;

CONDENSED GASES; VORTEX LATTICE;

CONDENSATION;

EID: 17444440568     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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