Spontaneous magnetization and structure formation in a spin-1 ferromagnetic Bose-Einstein condensate

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2005, Pages

  Saito, Hiroki ^a,b   Ueda, Masahito ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATES; CONCENTRIC RING STRUCTURES; FERROMAGNETIC INTERACTION; STRUCTURE FORMATION; TOTAL SPIN CONSERVATION;

ATOMIC PHYSICS; CONDENSATION; FERROMAGNETISM; GEOMETRY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MOLECULAR PHYSICS;

MAGNETIZATION;

EID: 27144472775     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.72.023610     Document Type: Article

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