Magnetic trapping of rare-earth atoms at millikelvin temperatures

Nature

Volumn 431, Issue 7006, 2004, Pages 281-284

  Hancox, Cindy I ^a   Doret, S Charles ^a   Hummon, Matthew T ^a   Luo, Linjiao ^a   Doyle, John M ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONDENSATION; EVAPORATION; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; THERMOANALYSIS;

EVAPORATIVE COOLING; MAGNETIC ATOMS; MAGNETIC TRAPPING; QUANTUM DEGENERATE GASES;

QUANTUM THEORY;

LANTHANIDE;

MAGNETIC PROPERTY; RARE EARTH ELEMENT;

ACCURACY; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION; COLLISIONALLY ACTIVATED DISSOCIATION; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; FORCE; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETISM; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SURFACE PROPERTY; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 4644363219     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02938     Document Type: Article

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