Formation of shock waves in a Bose-Einstein condensate

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2004, Pages

  Damski, Bogdan ^a,b  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HARMONIC GENERATION; HYDRODYNAMICS; LASER BEAMS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PHOTONS; SHOCK WAVES;

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATE (BEC); DENSITY PERTURBATIONS; QUANTUM PRESSURE (QP);

GAS CONDENSATES;

EID: 2942593912     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.69.043610     Document Type: Article

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