Evaporative cooling of an atomic beam

European Physical Journal D

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 9-18

  Mandonnet, E ^a   Minguzzi, A ^b   Dum, R ^a   Carusotto, I ^b   Castin, Y ^a   Dalibard, J ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE KASTLER BROSSEL   (France)

^b INFM   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOLTZMANN EQUATION; COOLING; EVAPORATION; EVAPORATIVE COOLING SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHASE SPACE METHODS;

APPROXIMATE ANALYTICAL; ATOMIC DYNAMICS; BOLTZMANN'S EQUATIONS; EVAPORATIVE COOLING; EXPERIMENTAL PARAMETERS; MONTE CARLO'S SIMULATION; PHASE-SPACE DENSITY; QUANTUM DEGENERACY;

ATOMS;

EID: 0034165175     PISSN: 14346060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s100530050521     Document Type: Article

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