LASER COOLING BELOW A PHOTON RECOIL WITH 3-LEVEL ATOMS

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作者
KASEVICH, M
CHU, S
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[1] Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.69.1741
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
We demonstrate a new cooling technique which is used to cool sodium atoms in one dimension to an effective temperature of 100 nK, less than 1/10 of the single photon recoil temperature k(B)T(rec) = (HBAR k)2/2M.
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页码:1741 / 1744
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