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Ytterbium Atom (Yb)

Laser cooled and trapped: 1998 by K. Honda, Y. Takahashi, T. Kuwamoto, M. Fujimoto, K. Toyoda, K. Ishikawa, and T. Yabuzaki at Kyoto University in Kyoto, Japan.
Reference: Phys. Rev. A 59, R934 (1999).

Basic information: Atomic/isotopic/spectroscopic information

(Some) groups currently using this atom:
      JQI/U Maryland
      Kyoto U
      U Hamburg
      U Washington

Atomic structure:
(coming soon)