Oscillations and interactions of dark and dark-bright solitons in Bose-Einstein condensates

Nature Physics

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 496-501

  Becker, Christoph ^a   Stellmer, Simon ^a   Soltan Panahi, Parvis ^a   Dörscher, Sören ^a   Baumert, Mathis ^a   Richter, Eva Maria ^a   Kronjäger, Jochen ^a   Bongs, Kai ^b   Sengstock, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONLINEAR OPTICS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATES; COLLECTIVE EXCITATIONS; DARK-BRIGHT SOLITONS; FORM STABILITIES; GENERIC FEATURES; SOLITARY EXCITATIONS; SOLITON DYNAMICS; ULTRACOLD QUANTUM GAS;

SOLITONS;

EID: 44849089302     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys962     Document Type: Article

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