Dissociation dynamics of singly charged vortices into half-quantum vortex pairs

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Manni, F ^a,e   Lagoudakis, K G ^a   Liew, T C H ^b,c   Andre R ^d   Savona, V ^a   Deveaud, B ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b Mediterranean Institute of Fundamental Physics   (Italy)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONDENSATE; DYNAMIC PROPERTY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; QUANTUM MECHANICS; VORTICITY;

ARTICLE; DISSOCIATION; PHENOMENOLOGY; POLYMERIZATION; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

EID: 84871809907     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2310     Document Type: Article

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