Laser cooling and trapping
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Harold J. Metcalf, Peter van der Straten
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Library
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1999
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Springer
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English
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Laser cooling allows one to slow atoms to roughly the speed of a mosquito and to control their motions with unprecedented precision. This elegant technique, whereby atoms, molecules, and even microscopic beads of glass, can be trapped in small regions of free space by beams of light and subsequently