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arXiv:1309.7033 · Nature Communications

Precision spectroscopy by photon-recoil signal amplification

Yong Wan, Florian Gebert, Jannes B. Wübbena, Nils Scharnhorst, Sana Amairi‐Pyka, Ian D. Leroux, Boerge Hemmerling, Niels Lörch, Klemens Hammerer, Piet O. Schmidt

Published Jan 30, 2014• 63 citations
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10.1038/ncomms4096

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