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Soviet Journal of Quantum Electronics

New ways of obtaining cold atoms and molecules

Nicolai G. Basov, É. M. Belenov, M A Gubin, Michael S. Kurdoglyan, V V Nikitin, А. Н. Ораевский, Boris N. Chichkov

Published Jul 31, 1987• 7 citations
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Abstract

An analysis is made of the possibility of utilizing resonance photodissociation of van der Waals complexes (with a binding energy of <0.1 eV per molecule), and resonance desorption and acoustodesorption of adsorbed molecules bound to the surface by the weak van der Waals interaction in generating fluxes of cold atoms and molecules.
DOI
10.1070/qe1987v017n07abeh009529

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