Tools of the Cold-Atom Trade: Light Scattering Forces and Slow Atomic Beams
This series of posts is intended to explain the tools and tricks used to create and manipulate samples of ultra-cold atoms; thus, it's appropriate to start with how we get those atoms in the first place. This will be a very quick background on the basic force used to make atoms cold, and then the technology of atom sources for a variety of experiments.
Source: scienceblogs.com
