Non-classical behavior of atoms in an interferometer

Foundations of Physics

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1329-1346

  Vušković, Lepša ^a   Arsenović, Dušan ^b   Božić, Mirjana ^b  

^a OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

(Non)violation of the classical probability laws; Atomic interference; Compatible statistical interpretation; Wigner's function

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036388122     PISSN: 00159018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020365405788     Document Type: Article

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