Creation and detection of Skyrmions in a Bose-Einstein condensate

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 103, Issue 25, 2009, Pages

  Leslie, L S ^a   Hansen, A ^b   Wright, K C ^b,c   Deutsch, B M ^a   Bigelow, N P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENDING ANGLE; BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATES; CONTINUOUS ROTATION; LOCAL SPIN; MATTER-WAVE INTERFERENCE; SKYRMIONS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPIN STATE; WINDING NUMBER;

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; STEAM CONDENSERS;

SPIN DYNAMICS;

EID: 72049122402     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.250401     Document Type: Article

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