Cavity QED with a Bose-Einstein condensate

Nature

Volumn 450, Issue 7167, 2007, Pages 268-271

  Brennecke, Ferdinand ^a   Donner, Tobias ^a   Ritter, Stephan ^a   Bourdel, Thomas ^b   Köhl, Michael ^c   Esslinger, Tilman ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUT D'OPTIQUE GRADUATE SCHOOL   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRODYNAMICS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; GAS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

ARTICLE; ATOM; CAVITY QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMIC; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; COOLING; ENGINEERING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LASER; MEASUREMENT; PHYSICS; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

EID: 36048980898     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature06120     Document Type: Article

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