Atom cooling, trapping, and quantum manipulation
- 1 March 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Reviews of Modern Physics
- Vol. 71 (2), S253-S262
- https://doi.org/10.1103/revmodphys.71.s253
Abstract
Neutral atoms and ions can now be cooled, trapped, and precisely manipulated using laser beams and other electromagnetic fields. This has made it possible to control external degrees of freedom at the quantum level, thereby making possible a variety of interesting new physics.Keywords
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