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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC)

Electric trapping of neutral Rb atoms

T. Rieger, Pepijn W. H. Pinkse, Gerhard Rempe

Published Jun 1, 2007• 0 citations
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Abstract

Here we report on all-electric trapping of Rb atoms. Electric trapping of neutral atoms in time-varying electric fields is proposed.
DOI
10.1109/cleoe-iqec.2007.4386704

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