Exact analysis of soliton dynamics in spinor Bose-Einstein condensates

Jun'ichi Ieda1, Takahiko Miyakawa, Miki Wadati

  • 1Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan. ieda@monet.phys.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Physical Review Letters
|December 17, 2004
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