Micro traps for quantum information processing and precision force sensing

Laser and Photonics Reviews

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 12-23

  Birkl, Gerhard ^a   Fortágh, József ^b  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atom chip; Atom interferometry; Bose Einstein condensate; Micro trap; Quantum information

Indexed keywords

EID: 34147108634     PISSN: 18638880     EISSN: 18638899     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lpor.200610002     Document Type: Review

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