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Optics and Spectroscopy

Bragg scattering and self-localization of atoms in light fields

A. P. Kazantsev, Gregory I. Surdutovich, D. O. Chudesnikov, V. P. Kakovlev

Published Mar 1, 1991• 0 citations
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