Bose-Einstein Condensation into Nonequilibrium States Studied by Condensate Focusing

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 27, 2002, Pages

  Shvarchuck, I ^a   Buggle, Ch ^a   Petrov, D S ^a,b   Dieckmann, K ^a   Zielonkowski, M ^a   Kemmann, M ^a   Tiecke, T G ^a   von Klitzing, W ^a   Shlyapnikov, G V ^a,b   Walraven, J T M ^a  

^a FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

^b KURCHATOV INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; HYDRODYNAMICS; NUCLEATION; PHASE TRANSITIONS;

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATION (BEC);

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 3543133046     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.270404     Document Type: Article

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