From laser cooling to aging: A unified Lévy flight description

American Journal of Physics

Volumn 76, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 630-636

  Bertin, Eric ^a,b   Bardou, François ^c  

^a Laboratoire de Physique UMR CNRS ENSL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE ET CHIMIE DES MATÉRIAUX DE STRASBOURG   (France)

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EID: 48249092033     PISSN: 00029505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1119/1.2888543     Document Type: Article

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