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Optics Communications

Diffraction by cold atoms

Frank Strauch, V. Gomer, Harald Schadwinkel, B. Ueberholz, D. Haubrich, Dieter Meschede

Published Jan 1, 1998• 5 citations
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10.1016/s0030-4018(97)00470-7

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