Stable skyrmions in spinor condensates

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 97, Issue 8, 2006, Pages

  Herbut, Igor F ^a,b   Oshikawa, Masaki ^b  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL DEFECTS; CRYSTAL SYMMETRY; QUANTUM THEORY; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY;

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATION; SKYRMION SOLUTIONS; SYMMETRIC SPINOR CONDENSATES; TOPOLOGICAL SKYRMION;

CONDENSATION;

EID: 33747774510     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.080403     Document Type: Article

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