Dynamical description of the creation and monitoring of a superposition state in a dissipative environment: The Paris experiment

Journal of Optics B: Quantum and Semiclassical Optics

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 265-271

  Peixoto De Faria, J G ^a   Nemes, M C ^a,b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Atom field interaction; Coherence loss; Damping effects

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; DAMPING; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; PROBABILITY;

SUPERPOSITION STATES;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0036805182     PISSN: 14644266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1464-4266/4/5/307     Document Type: Article

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