A complementarity experiment with an interferometer at me quantum-classical boundary

Nature

Volumn 411, Issue 6834, 2001, Pages 166-170

  Bertet, P ^a   Osnaghi, S ^a   Rauschenbeutel, A ^a   Nogues, G ^a   Auffeves, A ^a   Brune, M ^a   Raimond, J M ^a   Haroche, S ^a  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

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Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE INTERFERENCE; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; TRAJECTORIES;

QUANTUM SLITS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

ARTICLE; INTERFEROMETER; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOTION; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

EID: 0035837250     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35075517     Document Type: Article

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