Rapid sympathetic cooling to Fermi degeneracy on a chip

Nature Physics

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 384-387

  Aubin, S ^a   Myrskog, S ^a   Extavour, M H T ^a   Leblanc, L J ^a   McKay, D ^a   Stummer, A ^a   Thywissen, J H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SYMPATHETIC COOLING;

THERMAL MANAGEMENT (ELECTRONICS);

EID: 33744793754     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys309     Document Type: Article

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