Large spin relaxation rates in trapped submerged-shell atoms
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Colin B. Connolly,1,3 Yat Shan Au,1,3 S. Charles Doret,1,3 Wolfgang Ketterle,2,3 and John M. Doyle1,3 1Department of Physics, Harvard University, 17 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA 2Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA 3Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA (Received 20 August 2009; published 20 January 2010)
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