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Atom cooling, trapping, and quantum manipulation

Carl E. Wieman, David E. Pritchard, and David J. Wineland

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

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Rev. Mod. Phys. 71, S253 – Published 1 March, 1999

DOI: 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.

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