Efficient polarization of high-angular-momentum systems
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Simon M. Rochester,1 Konrad Szymański,2 Mark Raizen,3 Szymon Pustelny,2 Marcis Auzinsh,4 and Dmitry Budker5,6,7 1Rochester Scientific, LLC, El Cerrito, California 94530, USA 2Instytut Fizyki, Uniwersytet Jagielloński, ulica Łojasiewicza 11, 30-348 Kraków, Poland 3Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA 4Laser Centre, University of Latvia, Rainis Boulevard 19, LV-1586 Riga, Latvia 5Helmholtz Institut, Johannes Gutenberg Universität, 55099 Mainz, Germany 6Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720-7300, USA 7Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA (Received 31 August 2016; published 21 October 2016)
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