Stability of magneto-optical traps with large field gradients: Limits on the tight confinement of single atoms

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 78, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1660-1663

  Willems, P A ^a   Boyd, R A ^a   Bliss, J L ^a   Libbrecht, K G ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; CESIUM; DIFFUSION; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC RELAXATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; QUANTUM THEORY; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

ATOMIC COLLISIONS; DETUNING; DOPPLER THEORY; FOKKER-PLANCK EQUATION; MAGNETOOPTICAL TRAP STABILITY; TIGHT CONFINEMENT LIMIT;

MAGNETOOPTICAL EFFECTS;

EID: 4243592814     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.78.1660     Document Type: Article

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