Giant Helium Dimers Produced by Photoassociation of Ultracold Metastable Atoms

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 7, 2003, Pages

  Leonard J ^a   Walhout, M ^a   Mosk, A P ^a   Muller T ^a   Leduc, M ^a   Cohen Tannoudji, C ^a  

^a l'alimentation et l'Environnement   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY (OPTICAL); DIMERS; DOPPLER EFFECT; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; HELIUM; IONIZATION OF GASES; LIGHT POLARIZATION; PHASE SPACE METHODS; PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; PROBABILITY; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

PHOTOASSOCIATION;

HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS;

EID: 0141794445     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.073203     Document Type: Article

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