Stable Skyrmions in SU(2) gauged Bose-Einstein condensates

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Kawakami, Takuto ^a   Mizushima, Takeshi ^a   Nitta, Muneto ^b   MacHida, Kazushige ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATES; GAUGE FIELDS; HELICAL MODULATION; HELICITIES; NON-ABELIAN GAUGE; RASHBA SPIN-ORBIT COUPLING; SKYRMIONS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL ANALOGUES; TOPOLOGICAL OBJECTS; TWO-COMPONENT; WINDING NUMBER;

GAGES; GROUND STATE; STEAM CONDENSERS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 84863468455     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.015301     Document Type: Article

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