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Comptes Rendus de l Académie des Sciences - Series IV - Physics-Astrophysics

Micron-scale magnetic structures for atom optics

Andrei I. Sidorov, Russell McLean, B.A. Sexton, David S. Gough, Timothy J. Davis, A. M. Akulshin, G. I. Opat, Peter Hannaford

Published Jun 1, 2001• 5 citations
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10.1016/s1296-2147(01)01194-5

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