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Nature Physics 3, 589 (2007)
doi:10.1038/nphys704

Subject Category: Atomic and molecular physics

Atomic physics: Cold gases venture into Flatland

Keith Burnett1

  1. Keith Burnett is at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield, Hicks Building, Hounsfield Road, Sheffield S3 7RH, UK.
    e-mail: Keith.Burnett@Sheffield.ac.uk


Vortex structures have revealed a lot about the nature of three-dimensional Bose–Einstein condensates. They play an even bigger part in two-dimensional cold atomic gases and drive a fundamentally different phase transition.

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