Evanescent-wave trapping and evaporative cooling of an atomic gas at the crossover to two dimensions

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 17, 2003, Pages

  Hammes, M ^a   Rychtarik, D ^a   Engeser, B ^a   Nagerl H C ^a   Grimm, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; CESIUM; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; ELECTRON TRAPS; LASER BEAMS; LIGHT REFLECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; PRISMS; QUANTUM THEORY; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SOLID STATE LASERS;

ATOMIC GAS; EVANESCENT-WAVE TRAPPING; EVPORATIVE COOLING; LASER-COOLED ATOMS; PHASE-SPACE DENSITY;

ATOMIC PHYSICS;

EID: 4043158948     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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