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Lightspeed at a Snail's Pace: Relativity Meets Ultracold Physics

Authors :
K. M. O'Hara
Lincoln D. Carr
Christopher M. Weaver
L. H. Haddad
Source :
Frontiers in Optics 2014.
Publication Year :
2014
Publisher :
OSA, 2014.

Abstract

Bose-Einstein condensates in crystals of light with honeycomb geometry give rise to nonlinear Dirac equations and relativistic linear stability equations supporting a zoo of long-lived relativistic vortices, skyrmions, and solitons.

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Subjects :
Condensed Matter::Quantum Gases
Physics
Skyrmion
Dirac (software)
law.invention
Vortex
Nonlinear system
Classical mechanics
Theory of relativity
law
Quantum mechanics
Nonlinear Sciences::Pattern Formation and Solitons
Bose–Einstein condensate
Linear stability

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Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Frontiers in Optics 2014
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........d3fcc91414d5957bada8075bdc9f947e
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1364/ls.2014.lm4h.3
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