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Demonstrated three-dimensional viscous confinement and cooling of neutral sodium atoms with counterpropagating laser beams, reporting a temperature near 240 microkelvin.
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The record is the exact 1985 Physical Review Letters paper. Earlier radiation-pressure proposals and atomic-beam slowing, later polarization-gradient cooling, magneto-optical traps and Nobel attribution remain separate.
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- Chu et al., three-dimensional viscous confinement and cooling
- Crossref record for optical molasses paper
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Steven Chu; L. Hollberg; J. E. Bjorkholm; Alex Cable; A. Ashkin
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Chu and colleagues: three-dimensional laser cooling and confinement of atoms
Demonstrated three-dimensional viscous confinement and cooling of neutral sodium atoms with counterpropagating laser beams, reporting a temperature near 240 microkelvin.
Scientific scope
The record is the exact 1985 Physical Review Letters paper. Earlier radiation-pressure proposals and atomic-beam slowing, later polarization-gradient cooling, magneto-optical traps and Nobel attribution remain separate.
Reading status
This is a source-linked WRS catalogue note. A full explanatory guide and independent scientific reconstruction have not been completed for this entry. Read the identified original work for its complete narrative and arguments.
People and systems
Steven Chu; L. Hollberg; J. E. Bjorkholm; Alex Cable; A. Ashkin
The named authors contributed to this scoped work; individual effort shares and later applications are not assigned by the byline.