Photoassociation of cold Ca atoms

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 2292-2295

  Zinner, Götz ^a   Binnewies, Tomas ^a   Riehle, Fritz ^a   Tiemann, Eberhard ^b  

^a PHYSIKALISCH TECHNISCHE BUNDESANSTALT   (Germany)

^b INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CALCIUM; DISSOCIATION; GROUND STATE; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; SPECTROSCOPY;

HYPERFINE STRUCTURE; PHOTOASSOCIATION; PHOTOASSOCIATIVE SPECTROSCOPY;

ATOMIC PHYSICS;

EID: 18144442038     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.2292     Document Type: Article

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