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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

Single trapped ions sympathetically cooled by ultracold atoms

Arne Haerter, Andreas Brunner, Artjom Krükow, Stefan Schmid, Wolfgang Schnitzler, Johannes Hecker Denschlag

Published Jun 8, 2012• 0 citations
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