@inproceedings{fe021767375845cdb91ab665326d2575,
title = "Symmetry breaking in Bose-Einstein condensates",
abstract = "A gaseous Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) offers an ideal testing ground for studying symmetry breaking, because a trapped BEC system is in a mesoscopic regime, and situations exist under which symmetry breaking may or may not occur. Investigating this problem can explain why mean-field theories have been so successful in elucidating gaseous BEC systems and when manybody effects play a significant role. We substantiate these ideas in four distinct situations: namely, soliton formation in attractive BECs, vortex nucleation in rotating BECs, spontaneous magnetization in spinor BECs, and spin texture formation in dipolar BECs.",
keywords = "Dipolar BEC, Soliton, Symmetry breaking, Vortex",
author = "Masahito Ueda and Yuki Kawaguchi and Hiroki Saito and Rina Kanamoto and Tatsuya Nakajima",
year = "2006",
month = dec,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1063/1.2400646",
language = "English",
isbn = "9780735403673",
series = "AIP Conference Proceedings",
pages = "165--172",
booktitle = "Atomic Physics 20 - XX International Conference on Atomic Physics, ICAP 2006",
note = "20th International Conference on Atomic Physics, ICAP 2006 ; Conference date: 16-07-2006 Through 21-07-2006",
}