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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

Pseudo-single beam FM spectroscopy for fast, minimally destructive, high SNR detection of Bose-Einstein condensates

Chad Fertig, Mary Locke, Ken Kansky

Published May 20, 2009• 0 citations
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