Colder: beating the theoretical limit for laser cooling

It’s practically a law that no experiment ever works better than theory says it should, but that’s exactly what happened in atomic physics in the late 1980s, as Chad Orzel describes in the second instalment of his three-part history of laser cooling.

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Published in:Physics world 2023-11, Vol.36 (11), p.30-35
Main Author: Orzel, Chad
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:It’s practically a law that no experiment ever works better than theory says it should, but that’s exactly what happened in atomic physics in the late 1980s, as Chad Orzel describes in the second instalment of his three-part history of laser cooling.
ISSN:0953-8585
2058-7058
DOI:10.1088/2058-7058/36/11/22