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Nature

Photon-by-photon feedback control of a single-atom trajectory

Alexander Kubanek, M. Koch, Christian Sames, Alexei Ourjoumtsev, Pepijn W. H. Pinkse, Karim Murr, Gerhard Rempe

Published Dec 1, 2009• 77 citations
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10.1038/nature08563

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