Trapping an atom with single photons

Nature

Volumn 404, Issue 6776, 2000, Pages 365-368

  Pinkse, P W H ^a   Fischer, T ^a   Maunz, P ^a   Rempe, G ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATOM; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SIMULATION;

EID: 0034704744     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35006006     Document Type: Article

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