Plasmonically tailored micropotentials for ultracold atoms

Nature Photonics

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 494-498

  Stehle, Christian ^a   Bender, Helmar ^a   Zimmermann, Claus ^a   Kern, Dieter ^a   Fleischer, Monika ^a   Slama, Sebastian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

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EID: 79960933528     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2011.159     Document Type: Article

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