Abstract

The laser cooling and trapping of Ne²⁰ (Ref. 1) and Ne²¹ are expected to show considerably different characteristics because of the existence of the hyperfine structure for Ne²¹ and the difference in the statistics between two species. Although the natural abundance of Ne²¹ is only 0.257%, a highly efficient trapping technique we have developed has enabled us to trap visually observable numbers of Ne²¹ and to study the characteristics.

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