Vortex nucleation in Bose-Einstein condensates due to effective magnetic fields
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D. R. Murray, P. Öhberg, D. Gomila, and S. M. Barnett Department of Physics, SUPA, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G4 0NG, United Kingdom Department of Physics, SUPA, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, United Kingdom IFISC (CSIC-UIB), Instituto de Física Interdisciplinar y Sistemas Complejos, Campus Universitat Illes Balears, E-07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain Received 11 May 2009; published 10 June 2009
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