Origin of quantum-mechanical complementarity probed by a-'which-way' experiment in an atom interferometer

Nature

Volumn 395, Issue 6697, 1998, Pages 33-37

  Durr S ^a   Nonn, T ^a   Rempe, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

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ARTICLE; ATOMIC PARTICLE; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; EXPERIMENTATION; INTERFEROMETRY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

EID: 0032480274     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/25653     Document Type: Article

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