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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Matter-wave gap vortices in optical lattices

Elena A. Ostrovskaya, Yuri S. Kivshar

Published Jan 1, 2004• 3 citations
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Abstract

We describe the band-gap spectrum and localized coherent-matter waves in twodimensional optical lattices, and predict the existence of novel types of soliton bound states with a vortex-like phase, the gap vortices.
DOI
10.1364/iqec.2004.itue3

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