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How to create Alice string (half-quantum vortex) in a vector Bose-Einstein condensate

U. Leonhardt, G. E. Volovik

cond-matarXiv:cond-mat/0003428

Abstract

We suggest a procedure how to prepare the vortex with N=1/2 winding number -- the counterpart of the Alice string -- in a Bose--Einstein condensate with hyperfine spin F=1. Other possible vortices in Bose-condensates are also discussed.

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