Effect of cold collisions on spin coherence and resonance shifts in a magnetically trapped ultracold gas

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2002, Pages

  Harber, D M ^a   Lewandowski, H J ^a   McGuirk, J M ^a   Cornell, E A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ATOMIC PHYSICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ELECTRON RESONANCE; ELECTRON SCATTERING; ELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MICROWAVE SPECTROSCOPY; RUBIDIUM; STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

COLD COLLISION EFFECT; MAGNETICALLY TRAPPED ULTRACOLD GAS; QUANTUM STATISTICAL EFFECT; SPIN COHERENCE;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0036878838     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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