Heteronuclear hyperfine-state-changing cold collisions

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 055403-055401

  Young, Y E ^a   Ejnisman, R ^a   Shaffer, J P ^a   Bigelow, N P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; MAGNETOOPTICAL EFFECTS; RUBIDIUM; SODIUM;

MAGNETOOPTICAL TRAPS;

ATOMIC PHYSICS;

EID: 4043051273     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.62.055403     Document Type: Article

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