All-optical production of chromium Bose-Einstein condensates

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Beaufils, Q ^a   Chicireanu, R ^a   Zanon, T ^a   Laburthe Tolra, B ^a   Marechal E ^a   Vernac, L ^a   Keller, J C ^a   Gorceix, O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 13   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC PHYSICS; BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATION; CHROMIUM; METALS; MICROFLUIDICS; ONE DIMENSIONAL; OPTICAL ENGINEERING; STEAM CONDENSERS;

ALL-OPTICAL; AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY (APS); BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATE (BEC); CHROMIUM ATOMS; MAGNETO-OPTICAL TRAP (MOT); OFF-RESONANCE; ONE-DIMENSIONAL; OPTICAL TRAPPING; RADIO FREQUENCY (RF);

ATOMS;

EID: 44649148009     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.77.061601     Document Type: Article

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