Cooling and stabilization by collisions in a mixed ion-atom system

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Ravi, K ^a   Lee, Seunghyun ^a   Sharma, Arijit ^a   Werth, G ^b   Rangwala, S A ^a  

^a RAMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ION; RUBIDIUM;

COLLISION; COOLING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL METHOD; RUBIDIUM; STABILIZATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ARTICLE; ATOM; CHEMISTRY; COOLING; EXPERIMENT; HEATING; IONIZATION; MAGNETISM; SIMULATION; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84869409468     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2131     Document Type: Article

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