Interferometry below the standard quantum limit with Bose-Einstein condensates

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 15, 2002, Pages 150401/1-150401/4

  Dunningham, J A ^a   Burnett, K ^a   Barnett, Stephen M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGED PARTICLES; INTERFEROMETRY; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; PHOTONS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATES; HEISENBERG LIMIT; MACROSCOPIC SUPERPOSITION STATES; STANDARD QUANTUM LIMIT;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0037037955     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.150401     Document Type: Article

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