Spontaneous symmetry breaking in a quenched ferromagnetic spinor Bose-Einstein condensate

Nature

Volumn 443, Issue 7109, 2006, Pages 312-315

  Sadler, L E ^a   Higbie, J M ^a   Leslie, S R ^a   Vengalattore, M ^a   Stamper Kurn, D M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC PHYSICS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; QUANTUM THEORY; QUENCHING; SUPERFLUID HELIUM; TOPOLOGY;

QUANTUM FLUIDS; QUENCHED FERROMAGNETIC SPINOR BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATE; SPIN VORTICES;

FERROMAGNETISM;

FERROMAGNETIC MATERIAL; ISOTOPE; RUBIDIUM 87; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CONDENSATE; FLUID; PHASE TRANSITION; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

ARTICLE; FLUIDIZATION; MAGNETISM; MASS; PHASE TRANSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 33748939585     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature05094     Document Type: Article

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