Quantum tunneling of a vortex between two pinning potentials

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Fialko, O ^a   Bradley, A S ^b   Brand, J ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATE; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; INHOMOGENEOUS MAGNETIC FIELD; PINNING POTENTIAL; QUANTUM TUNNELING; TIME-SCALES; TUNNELING RATES;

MAGNETIC FIELDS; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; STEAM CONDENSERS;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 84855498631     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.015301     Document Type: Article

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