p-wave resonant bose gas: a finite-momentum spinor superfluid

Leo Radzihovsky1, Sungsoo Choi

  • 1Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, 80309, USA.

Physical Review Letters
|October 2, 2009
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