Quantum-diffractive background gas collisions in atom-trap heating and loss

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 1999, Pages R29-R32

  Bali, S ^a   O'Hara K M ^a   Gehm, M E ^a   Granade, S R ^a   Thomas, J E ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0002722351     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.60.R29     Document Type: Article

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