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Committee on AMO 2010
Board on Physics and Astronomy
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences
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this project was supported by the Department of energy under Award No. De-FG02-04eR15610
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Cover: A purple laser beam slows erbium atoms (the purple beam traveling right to left) emerging
from an oven at 1300°c, in preparation for trapping and cooling. SoURce: National institute of
Standards and technology.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
controlling the quantum world : the science of atoms, molecules, and photons / committee on
AMo 2010, Board on Physics and Astronomy, Division on engineering and Physical Sciences.
p. cm.
includes bibliographical references.
iSBN 978-0-309-10270-4 (pbk.)
1. Quantum theory. 2. Atoms. 3. Molecules. 4. Photons. i. National Research council (.).
committee on Atomic, Molecular, and optical Sciences 2010.
2006
539—dc22
2007012182
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