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All-Optical BEC

all-optical BEC

All-optical Bose Einstein condensate of Rb atoms at Georgia Tech. The atoms are held only be laser beams and not by the force exerted by bulky magnet coils.

Reported by: Barrett et al., in the 2 July 2001 Physical Review Letters

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