Laser Cooling

Laser Cooling is a technique in atomic physics that uses the momentum transfer from counter-propagating laser beams to reduce the kinetic energy of atoms, thereby lowering their temperature to near absolute zero.

4.4K

Publications

302.7K

Citations

12.6K

Authors

1.8K

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Publications per year

2017–2026

857

Parents

Atomic Physics

Children

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Publications

4.4K

Evidence of Bose-Einstein Condensation in an Atomic Gas with Attractive Interactions

C. C. Bradley, C. A. Sackett, J. J. Tollett et al. · Physical Review Letters · 1995 · 3.2K citations

Natural Sciences, Physics, Condensed Matter Physics +15

Quantum dynamics of single trapped ions

D. Leibfried, R. Blatt, C. Monroe et al. · Reviews of Modern Physics · 2003 · 2.7K citations

Natural Sciences, Physics, Atomic Physics +16

Laser cooling of a nanomechanical oscillator into its quantum ground state

Jasper Fuk‐Woo Chan, Thiago P. Mayer Alegre, Amir H. Safavi‐Naeini et al. · Nature · 2011 · 2.3K citations · Full text

Natural Sciences, Physics, Nanotechnology +12

Sideband cooling of micromechanical motion to the quantum ground state

John Teufel, Tobias Donner, Dale Li et al. · Nature · 2011 · 2.1K citations · Full text

Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Physics +16

Observation of Resonance Condensation of Fermionic Atom Pairs

C. A. Regal, Markus Greiner, D. S. Jin · Physical Review Letters · 2004 · 1.7K citations · Full text

Natural Sciences, Physics, Atomic Physics +15

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Authors

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D. J. Wineland
National Institute of Standards and Technology, United States
41 publications · 14.6K citations
33
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WM
Wayne M. Itano
National Institute of Standards and Technology, United States
42 publications · 10K citations
33
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PZ
P. Zoller
Universität Innsbruck, Austria
48 publications · 6.4K citations
32
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JS
J. Stuart Nelson
University of California, Irvine, United States
35 publications · 2K citations
25
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WD
William D. Phillips
National Institute of Standards and Technology, United States
32 publications · 5.2K citations
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Venues

Physical Review Letters
PRL · 533 publications · 89.1K citations
158
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Physical Review A
PRA · 548 publications · 27.9K citations
81
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The Journal of Chemical Physics
123 publications · 8.2K citations
45
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New Journal of Physics
NJP · 119 publications · 6.8K citations
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Optics Letters
121 publications · 6.5K citations
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