Spin textures in slowly rotating Bose-Einstein condensates

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2004, Pages

  Mueller, Erich J ^a  

^a Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFERROMAGNETISM; APPROXIMATION THEORY; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); FERROMAGNETISM; GROUND STATE; HAMILTONIANS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; QUANTUM THEORY; RUBIDIUM; VECTORS;

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; BOSE EINSTEIN CONDENSATES; SPIN FLUCTUATIONS; SPIN TEXTURES;

GAS CONDENSATES;

EID: 2542453082     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.69.033606     Document Type: Article

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