Decay Rates in Attractive Bose-Einstein Condensates
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C. Huepe,1 S. Métens,1 G. Dewel,2 P. Borckmans,2 and M. E. Brachet1 1Laboratoire de Physique Statistique de l’Ecole Normale Supérieure, associé au CNRS et aux Universités Paris 6 et 7, 24 Rue Lhomond, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France 2Service de Chimie-Physique and Center for Nonlinear Phenomena and Complex Systems, CP 231, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 1050 Bruxelles, Belgium (Received 17 August 1998)
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