Chu Steven
Physics Department, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-4060, USA.
Nature. 2002 Mar 14;416(6877):206-10. doi: 10.1038/416206a.
This overview prefaces a collection of Insight review articles on the physics and applications of laser-cooled atoms. I will cast this work into a historical perspective in which laser cooling and trapping is seen as one of several research directions aimed at controlling the internal and external degrees of freedom of atoms and molecules.
本综述为一系列关于激光冷却原子的物理学及应用的《洞察》综述文章作序。我将把这项工作置于历史视角中,在该视角下,激光冷却与俘获被视为旨在控制原子和分子的内部及外部自由度的若干研究方向之一。