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Laser cooling and trapping rely on the interaction between laser light and atoms to exert a controllable force on the atoms, and many sophisticated schemes have been developed using the special properties of the interaction. The outcome is a new field called laser cooling and trapping of atoms that has flourished over the last decade.
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Metcalf, H.J., van der Straten, P. (1999). Force on Two-Level 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_3
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