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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

Negative-mass hydrodynamics in a spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensate

Khalid Hossain, M. A. Khamehchi, Maren Mossman, Yongping Zhang, Thomas Busch, Michael McNeil Forbes, Peter Engels

Published Jun 8, 2017• 8 citations
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