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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

Decoherence of a Rb BEC caused by stray magnetic fields and surface effects

Arne Schwettmann, Jonathan Tallant, Donald W. Booth, C. Erin Brown, James P. Shaffer

Published May 23, 2009• 0 citations
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