Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless crossover in a trapped atomic gas

Nature

Volumn 441, Issue 7097, 2006, Pages 1118-1121

  Hadzibabic, Zoran ^a   Krüger, Peter ^a   Cheneau, Marc ^a   Battelier, Baptiste ^a   Dalibard, Jean ^a  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONDENSATION; CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE; DIMENSIONAL STABILITY; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; PHASE TRANSITIONS; THERMAL EFFECTS; VORTEX FLOW;

ATOMIC GASES; BEREZINSKII-KOSTERLITZ-THOULESS (BKT) THEORY; BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATION; FERROMAGNETS; THERMAL FLUCTUATIONS;

GASES;

FERROMAGNETIC MATERIAL;

CONDENSATION; CRYSTAL; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LOW TEMPERATURE; PHASE TRANSITION; RUBIDIUM; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC PARTICLE; BOSON; CRYSTAL; GAS; LOW TEMPERATURE; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SUPERCRITICAL FLUID; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 33745616370     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04851     Document Type: Article

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