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Magnetic trapping of neutral atoms has the potential for use in very many areas, including high-resolution precision spectroscopy, collision studies, Bose-Einstein condensation, and atom optics. Although ion trapping, laser cooling of trapped ions, and trapped ion spectroscopy were known for many years [125], it was only in 1985 that neutral atoms were first trapped [126]. Such experiments offer the capability of the spectroscopic ideal of an isolated atom at rest, in the dark, available for interaction with electromagnetic field probes.
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Metcalf, H.J., van der Straten, P. (1999). Magnetic Trapping of Neutral Atoms. In: Laser Cooling and Trapping. Graduate Texts in Contemporary Physics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1470-0_10
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