Spontaneous vortices in the formation of Bose-Einstein condensates

Nature

Volumn 455, Issue 7215, 2008, Pages 948-951

  Weiler, Chad N ^a   Neely, Tyler W ^a   Scherer, David R ^a   Bradley, Ashton S ^b,c   Davis, Matthew J ^b   Anderson, Brian P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONDENSATE; CONDENSATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; PHYSICS; TOPOLOGY;

ARTICLE; BOSE EINSTEIN CONDENSATE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PHASE TRANSITION; PHYSICAL PHASE; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY;

EID: 54049118820     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07334     Document Type: Article

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