Magneto-Optical Trap
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A Magneto-Optical Trap (MOT) is for cooling and trapping alkali atoms. Note that early on certain groups referred to a MOT as a ZOT (Zeeman-shift Optical Trap), but for good or for ill this has died out.
See how to build one here.
And here's a summary of how MOTs work (PDF).
Miscellanea
Not to be confused with Mot, god of Death.
