Giant vortex and the breakdown of strong pinning in a rotating Bose-Einstein condensate

Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis

Volumn 178, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 247-286

  Aftalion, Amandine ^a   Alama, Stan ^b   Bronsard, Lia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 26044442830     PISSN: 00039527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00205-005-0373-6     Document Type: Article

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