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  • Title: Monopole core instability and Alice rings in spinor Bose-Einstein condensates.
    Author: Ruostekoski J, Anglin JR.
    Journal: Phys Rev Lett; 2003 Nov 07; 91(19):190402. PubMed ID: 14611571.
    Abstract:
    We show how the length scale hierarchy, resulting from different interaction strengths in an optically trapped spin-1 23Na Bose-Einstein condensate, can lead to intriguing core deformations in singular topological defects. In particular, a point defect can be unstable with respect to the formation of a stable half-quantum vortex ring (an "Alice ring"), providing a realistic scheme to use dissipation as a sophisticated state engineering tool. We compute the threshold for stability of the point monopole, which is beyond the current experimental regime.
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