Cooling in strongly correlated optical lattices: Prospects and challenges

Reports on Progress in Physics

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  McKay, D C ^a   DeMarco, B ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1088/0034-4885/74/5/054401     Document Type: Article

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