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Putting an electron to rest

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Figure 1: Time record of the quantum jumps between the lowest-energy quantized states of motion of a trapped electron observed by Peil and Gabrielse1.

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Meystre, P. Putting an electron to rest. Nature 401, 869–870 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1038/44742

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