Visibility is not a good measure of a well-defined relative phase

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 023817-023811

  Björk, Gunnar ^b   Inoue, Shuichiro ^a,b   Söderholm, Jonas ^b  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; INTERFEROMETERS; LASER PULSES; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; QUANTUM THEORY;

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATION; HERMITIAN RELATIVE PHASE OPERATOR; MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETER;

CHARGED PARTICLES;

EID: 0038505176     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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