Collisions of matter-wave solitons

Nature Physics

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 918-922

  Nguyen, Jason H V ^a   Dyke, Paul ^b   Luo, De ^a   Malomed, Boris A ^c   Hulet, Randall G ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATION; CONTROL NONLINEARITIES; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

ATTRACTIVE INTERACTIONS; BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATES; COLLISIONAL DYNAMICS; FUNDAMENTAL FEATURES; MATTER WAVE SOLITONS; NONLINEAR INTERACTIONS; QUASI-1D WAVEGUIDES; SOLITON COLLISIONS;

SOLITONS;

EID: 84918494765     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys3135     Document Type: Article

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