Knots in a spinor bose-einstein condensate

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 18, 2008, Pages

  Kawaguchi, Yuki ^a,d   Nitta, Muneto ^b   Ueda, Masahito ^a,c,d  

^a Tokyo Institute of Technology ^*  (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SPIN WAVES;

POLAR PHASES; SPIN TEXTURES; SPINOR BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATES;

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATION;

EID: 43249085342     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.180403     Document Type: Article

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