Vector Quantum Field Theory of Atoms: Nonlinear Atom Optics and Bose - Einstein Condensate
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عنوان ژورنال: Australian Journal of Physics
سال: 1996
ISSN: 0004-9506
DOI: 10.1071/ph960819