Compression of cold atoms to very high densities in a rotating-beam blue-detuned optical trap

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 314031-314034

  Friedman, N ^a   Khaykovich, L ^a   Ozeri, R ^a   Davidson, N ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

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