Quantum entanglement via optical control of atom-atom interactions

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 84, Issue 13, 2000, Pages

  Lukin, M D ^a   Hemmer, P R ^b  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOM-ATOM INTERACTIONS; DIPOLE-DIPOLE INTERACTIONS; OTPICAL TRANSITIONS; QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT; QUANTUM LOGIC;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; GROUND STATE; HAMILTONIANS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PHOTONS; POLARIZATION; RESONANCE; VECTORS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0000952566     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.2818     Document Type: Article

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