Atom cooling and trapping by disorder

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 3953-3962

  Horak, Peter ^a   Courtois, Jean Yves ^a   Grynberg, Gilbert ^a  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

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EID: 0000428493     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.58.3953     Document Type: Article

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