Shadows and mirrors: Reconstructing quantum states of atom motion

Physics Today

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 22-28

  Leibfried, Dietrich ^a   Pfau, Tilman ^a   Monroe, Christopher ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC BEAMS; ATOMS; FUNCTIONS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERFEROMETRY; MIRRORS; PHASE SPACE METHODS; PROBABILITY; QUANTUM THEORY;

INVERSE RADON TRANSFORMATION; PHASE SPACE PROBABILITY; QUANTUM STATE; WAVE FUNCTION; WIGNER DISTRIBUTION;

ATOMIC PHYSICS;

EID: 0032049691     PISSN: 00319228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.882256     Document Type: Article

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