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

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We suggest a procedure of how to prepare a vortex with N=1/2 winding number—a counterpart of the Alice string-in Bose-Einstein condensates.

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  1. School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St. Andrews, KY16 95S, Scotland

    U. Leonhardt

  2. Department of Physics, Royal Institute of Technology, 100 44, Stockholm, Sweden

    U. Leonhardt

  3. Low Temperature Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology, 02015, Espoo, Finland

    G. E. Volovik

  4. Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Kosygina 2, Moscow, 117940, Russia

    G. E. Volovik

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From Pis’ma v Zhurnal Éksperimental’no\(\overset{\lower0.5em\hbox{$\smash{\scriptscriptstyle\smile}$}}{l} \) i Teoretichesko\(\overset{\lower0.5em\hbox{$\smash{\scriptscriptstyle\smile}$}}{l} \) Fiziki, Vol. 72, No. 2, 2000, pp. 66–70.

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Leonhardt, U., Volovik, G.E. How to create an Alice string (half-quantum vortex) in a vector Bose-Einstein condensate. Jetp Lett. 72, 46–48 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1312008

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