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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

Generating sodium Bose-Einstein condensates in hybrid magnetic quadrupole and optical traps

Jie Jiang, Zongkai Tian, Alex Behlen, Jared Austin, J.B. Jepson, Yingmei Liu

Published Mar 22, 2011• 0 citations
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