Winding up superfluid in a torus via Bose Einstein condensation

Scientific Reports

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Das, Arnab ^a   Sabbatini, Jacopo ^b   Zurek, Wojciech H ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

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EID: 84860181938     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep00352     Document Type: Article

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