Superfluid transitions in bosonic atom-molecule mixtures near a feshbach resonance

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 16, 2004, Pages

  Radzihovsky, Leo ^a   Park, Jae ^a   Weichman, Peter B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b BAE SYSTEMS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONDENSATION; FREE ENERGY; HAMILTONIANS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MIXTURES; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SUPERFLUID HELIUM;

BOSONIC ATOMS; FESHBACH RESONANCE; QUANTUM FLUIDS; SUPERFLUID TRANSITIONS;

HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS;

EID: 2942617377     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.160402     Document Type: Article

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