Controlling cold atoms above a magnetic reflector

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 357, Issue 1755, 1999, Pages 1409-1420

  Hinds, E A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atom optics; Quantum computation; Two dimensional gas, trapped atoms

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346246614     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.1999.0381     Document Type: Article

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