Observing the position spread of atomic wave packets

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 78, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 2096-2099

  Gorlitz A ^a,b   Weidemuller M ^a,b   Hansch T W ^a,b   Hemmerich, A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; LIGHT SCATTERING; MAGNETOOPTICAL EFFECTS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; QUANTUM THEORY; RAMAN SCATTERING; RUBIDIUM; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

ATOMIC WAVE PACKETS; BRAGG DIFFRACTION; DEBYE WALLER FACTOR; DEPHASING; MAGNETOOPTIC TRAPS; OPTICAL LATTICES; RABI FREQUENCY;

ATOMIC PHYSICS;

EID: 6244267503     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.78.2096     Document Type: Article

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