Vortex molecules in coherently coupled two-component bose-einstein condensates

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 25, 2004, Pages

  Kasamatsu, Kenichi ^a   Tsubota, Makoto ^a   Ueda, Masahito ^b  

^a Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING MECHANISM; BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATES; SCATTERING LENGTHS; VORTEX MOLECULES;

ANISOTROPY; BINDING ENERGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); FERROMAGNETISM; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POLARIZATION; TOPOLOGY; VECTORS;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 42749101613     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.250406     Document Type: Article

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