Vortex nucleation as a case study of symmetry breaking in quantum systems

Nature Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 431-437

  Dagnino, D ^a   Barberan N ^a   Lewenstein, M ^b,c   Dalibard, J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b ICFO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES   (Spain)

^c INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^d ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATION; GROUND STATE; NUCLEATION; QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; VORTEX FLOW;

ADIABATIC EVOLUTION; BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATES; CRITICAL FREQUENCIES; MEAN FIELD APPROXIMATION; MEAN FIELD METHODS; ROTATION FREQUENCIES; STRONG CORRELATION; SYMMETRY PROPERTIES;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 67650232703     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1277     Document Type: Article

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