Dipolar collisions of polar molecules in the quantum regime

Nature

Volumn 464, Issue 7293, 2010, Pages 1324-1328

  Ni, K K ^a   Ospelkaus, S ^a,b   Wang, D ^a   Quemener G ^a   Neyenhuis, B ^a   De Miranda, M H G ^a   Bohn, J L ^a   Ye, J ^a   Jin, D S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL REACTION; ELECTRIC FIELD; FUNDAMENTAL PARTICLE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; POTASSIUM; POWER LAW; QUANTUM MECHANICS; RUBIDIUM;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; DIPOLAR COLLISION; DIPOLE; ELECTRIC FIELD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 77951850448     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08953     Document Type: Article

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