Imaging single atoms in a three-dimensional array

Nature Physics

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 556-560

  Nelson, Karl D ^a   Li, Xiao ^a   Weiss, David S ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL LATTICES; OPTICAL LATTICES; OPTICAL MATERIALS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; QUANTUM OPTICS; QUBITS;

INTERNAL STATE; LATTICE SPACING; QUANTUM GATES; QUANTUM SIMULATIONS; QUANTUM STATE; SITE OCCUPANCY; THREE DIMENSIONAL ARRAYS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL OPTICAL LATTICE;

ATOMS;

EID: 34547672770     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys645     Document Type: Article

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