Wigner functions, squeezing properties, and slow decoherence of a mesoscopic superposition of two-level atoms

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 4034-4044

  Benedict, M G ^a   Czirjak A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

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EID: 0001440451     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.60.4034     Document Type: Article

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