Knotlike vortex lines in spinor BEC

Annals of Physics

Volumn 312, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 84-91

  Duan, Yi Shi ^a   Liu, Xin ^a   Yang, Jie ^a  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Knotlike vortex lines; Spinor BEC

Indexed keywords

EID: 3142781365     PISSN: 00034916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aop.2003.12.015     Document Type: Article

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