Skyrmion excitation in a two-dimensional spinor Bose-Einstein condensate

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 68, Issue 4 B, 2003, Pages

  Zhai, Hui ^a   Chen, Wei Qiang ^a   Xu, Zhan ^a   Chang, Lee ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONDENSATION; GROUND STATE; HALL EFFECT; KINETIC ENERGY; NUMERICAL METHODS; VORTEX FLOW;

BOSE EINSTEIN CONDENSATE; SKYRMION; TWO DIMENSIONAL SPINOR;

HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS;

EID: 18244423048     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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