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Nature Physics

Evidence for an oscillating soliton/vortex ring by density engineering of a Bose–Einstein condensate

Itay Shomroni, E. Lahoud, Shai Levy, Jeff Steinhauer

Published Jan 18, 2009• 165 citations
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DOI
10.1038/nphys1177

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