Further reading
Information about the Nobel Prize in Physics 1997 (press release), The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Cooling and Trapping Atoms, by W.D. Phillips and H.J. Metcalf, Scientific American, Marh 1987, p. 36
New Mechanisms for Laser Cooling, by C. N. Cohen-Tannoudji and W. D. Phillips, Physics Today, October 1990, p. 33
Laser Trapping of Neutral Particles, by S. Chu, Scientific American, February 1992, p. 71
Experimenters Cool Helium below Single-Photon Recoil Limit in Three Dimensions by G. B. Lubkin, Physics Today, January 1996, p. 22
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