Controlled decoherence in multiple beam Ramsey interference

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 559-563

  Mei, Michael ^a,b   Weitz, Martin ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; CESIUM; COHERENT LIGHT; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; PHOTONS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; QUANTUM THEORY; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE;

ATOMIC QUANTUM STATE; CESIUM ATOMIC BEAM; MICHELSON FRINGE CONTRAST; MULTIPLE BEAM RAMSEY INTERFERENCE; PATH GUESSING LIKELIHOOD; PHOTON SCATTERING;

ATOMIC BEAMS;

EID: 0035133720     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.559     Document Type: Article

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