Vortex States of Rapidly Rotating Dilute Bose-Einstein Condensates

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 14, 2003, Pages 4-

  Fischer, Uwe R ^a   Baym, Gordon ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

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EID: 85038317598     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.140402     Document Type: Article

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