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Ultracold atoms in disordered potentials: elastic scattering time in the strong scattering regime

Adrien Signoles, Baptiste Lecoutre, Jérémie Richard, Lih-King Lim, Vincent Denechaud, Valentin Volchkov, Angelopoulou, V., Fred Jendrzejewski, Alain Aspect, Laurent Sanchez-Palencia, Vincent Josse

Published Oct 7, 2019• 2 citations
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Author: Signoles, Adrien et al.; Genre: Journal Article; Published online: 2019-10-07; Keywords: ZWE Optics and Sensing Laboratory; Title: Ultracold atoms in disordered potentials: elastic scattering time in the strong scattering regime

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