Vortices in spatially inhomogeneous superfluids

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 2004, Pages

  Sheehy, Daniel E ^a   Radzihovsky, Leo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; APPROXIMATION THEORY; FERMI LEVEL; GAS CONDENSATES; GRAPH THEORY; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; KINETIC ENERGY; QUANTUM THEORY; ROTATION; TOPOLOGY;

SUPERFLOW ANISOTROPY; SUPERFLUIDS; THOMAS-FERMI (TF) CONDENSATES; THOMAS-FERMI APPROXIMATION (TFA);

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 42749106240     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.70.063620     Document Type: Article

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