Nonclassicality of Quantum States: A Hierarchy of Observable Conditions

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 28, 2002, Pages

  Richter, Th ^a   Vogel, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC PHYSICS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GROUND STATE; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PHOTONS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

NONCLASSICALITY; QUANTUM STATE;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 0037207342     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.283601     Document Type: Article

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