Controlled Generation and Manipulation of Vortex Dipoles in a Bose-Einstein Condensate

Physical Review X

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 1-10

  Aioi, Tomohiko ^a   Kadokura, Tsuyoshi ^a   Kishimoto, Tetsuo ^a,b   Saito, Hiroki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atomic and Molecular Physics; Fluid Dynamics; Superfluidity

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS; ATOMIC BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATE; BEAM VELOCITY; BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATES; GAUSSIAN LASER BEAM; VORTEX NUCLEATION;

FLUID DYNAMICS; GAUSSIAN BEAMS; QUANTUM OPTICS; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; SUPERFLUID HELIUM;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 84857329907     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21603308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.1.021003     Document Type: Article

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