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Cavity-Enhanced Parity-Nonconserving Optical Rotation in Hg, Xe, and I

Lykourgos Bougas, G. E. Katsorinakis, Theodore Peter Rakitzis

Published Jun 1, 2013• 0 citations
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Author Institution: Department of Physics, University of Crete, and Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas 71110 Heraklion-Crete, Greece

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