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Rev. Mod. Phys. 71, S253–S262 (1999)

Atom cooling, trapping, and quantum manipulation

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Carl E. Wieman
Department of Physics and JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309

David E. Pritchard
Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139

David J. Wineland
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, Colorado 80303

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.

© 1999 The American Physical Society

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/RevModPhys.71.S253
DOI:
10.1103/RevModPhys.71.S253
PACS:
32.80.Pj, 03.65.-w, 32.80.Pj, 03.65.-w
 
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