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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

Realization of a Magneto-Optical Trap for Cadmium Atoms

M. Acton, Kathy-Anne Brickman, M.-S. Chang, Dzimitry Matsukevich, P. C. Haljan, Vanderlei Salvador Bagnato, Christopher R. Monroe

Published Jun 8, 2007• 0 citations
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