Strong atom-field coupling for Bose-Einstein condensates in an optical cavity on a chip

Nature

Volumn 450, Issue 7167, 2007, Pages 272-276

  Colombe, Yves ^a   Steinmetz, Tilo ^a,b   Dubois, Guilhem ^a   Linke, Felix ^a,c   Hunger, David ^b   Reichel, Jakob ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^c BMW GROUP   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRODYNAMICS; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

ARTICLE; ATOM; HEATING; LIGHT SCATTERING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; VACUUM;

EID: 36048975989     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature06331     Document Type: Article

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