Acceleration of ultracold atoms: Towards a measurement of h/MRb

Journal of Optics B: Quantum and Semiclassical Optics

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2003, Pages

  Battesti, Rémy ^a   Cladé, Pierre ^a   Guellati Khélifa, Saida ^b   Schwob, Catherine ^a   Grémaud, Benoît ^a   Nez, François ^a   Julien, Lucile ^a   Biraben, François ^a  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^b Inst Natl de Metrologie   (France)

Author keywords

Cold atoms; Fine structure constant; Raman transitions; Recoil velocity; Rubidium atom

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ATOMS; RUBIDIUM; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

ATOMIC RECOIL VELOCITY; PLANCK CONSTANT; RAMAN TRANSITIONS; RUBIDIUM ATOMS; ULTRACOLD ATOMS;

ATOMIC PHYSICS;

EID: 0038060481     PISSN: 14644266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1464-4266/5/2/377     Document Type: Article

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