Dynamics of vortex formation in merging Bose-Einstein condensate fragments

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Carretero Gonzalez R ^a   Anderson, B P ^b   Kevrekidis, P G ^c   Frantzeskakis, D J ^d   Weiler, C N ^b  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHASE MEASUREMENT; TOPOLOGY; VORTICITY;

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATE FRAGMENTS; MAGNETIC TRAP; REPULSIVE OPTICAL POTENTIAL; VORTEX FORMATION;

ATOMIC PHYSICS;

EID: 41549103374     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.77.033625     Document Type: Article

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