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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

Quantum Engineering of a Low-Entropy Gas of Heteronuclear Bosonic Molecules in an Optical Lattice

Andreas Schindewolf, Lukas Reichs ollner, Hanns-Christoph N agerl, T. Takekoshi, Rudolf Grimm

Published Jun 7, 2017• 3 citations
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