Effects of boundaries and density inhomogeneity on states of vortex matter in Bose-Einstein condensates at finite temperature

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Kragset, S ^a   Babaev, E ^b,c   Sudbo A ^a,d  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^c ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^d Det Norske Videnskaps Akademi   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); MONTE CARLO METHODS; THERMAL EFFECTS; VORTEX FLOW;

NONUNIFORM DENSITY; QUANTUM FLUIDS; VORTEX MATTER;

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATION;

EID: 41749113286     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.77.043605     Document Type: Article

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