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Magneto-optical film-based grooved microstructures for manipulating cold atoms

Christian Wolff, David S. Gough, Wang, J., S. Whitlock, Sidorov, A. I., Peter Hannaford, McLean, R. J.

Published Jan 1, 2004• 0 citations
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