Cold and Ultracold Collisions in Quantum Microscopic and Mesoscopic Systems
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: August 1, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9780521036931
Subjects: Atomic & molecular physics; Low temperature physics; Optics (light); Science; Science/Mathematics; Nuclear Energy; Nuclear Physics; Physics; Science / Nuclear Physics; Science / Physics; Science : Physics; Technology : Nuclear Energy; Collisions (Nuclear physics); Materials at low temperatures
First sentence: In the 1980s the first successful experiments [312] and theory [98], demonstrating that light could be used to cool and confine atoms to submillikelvin temperatures, opened several exciting new chapters in atomic, molecular, and optical (AMO) physics.