Controlling chemical reactions of a single particle

Nature Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 649-652

  Ratschbacher, Lothar ^a   Zipkes, Christoph ^a   Sias, Carlo ^a   Köhl, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ION EXCHANGE; IONS; QUANTUM OPTICS; TRAPPED IONS;

CONTROL OF CHEMICAL REACTIONS; CRITICAL COMPONENT; EXPERIMENTAL SYSTEM; HYPERFINE INTERACTIONS; MAGNETIC FIELD CONTROLS; QUANTUM-INFORMATION PROCESSING; SINGLE TRAPPED ION; THERMODYNAMIC PARAMETER;

REACTION RATES;

EID: 84865782508     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys2373     Document Type: Article

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