Experimental Observation of Optically Trapped Atoms
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Hyperfine Spectroscopy of Optically Trapped Atoms
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review Letters
سال: 1986
ISSN: 0031-9007
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.57.314