Magnetic trapping of calcium monohydride molecules at millikelvin temperatures

Nature

Volumn 395, Issue 6698, 1998, Pages 148-150

  Weinstein, Jonathan D ^a   DeCarvalho, Robert ^a   Guillet, Thierry ^a   Friedrich, Bretislav ^b   Doyle, John M ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOROSILICATE; CALCIUM MONOHYDRIDE; CHROMIUM; EUROPIUM; HELIUM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CRYOSURGERY; MAGNETIC FIELD; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; VIBRATION;

EID: 0032504992     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/25949     Document Type: Article

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