Continuous pumping and control of a mesoscopic superposition state in a lossy QED cavity

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 063809-063801

  De Oliveira, M C ^a   Moussa, M H Y ^b   Mizrahi, S S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO CARLOS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; ATOMIC BEAMS; ATOMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; RELAXATION PROCESSES;

MESOSCOPIC SUPERPOSITION; QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS CAVITY; SINGLE MODE MICROWAVE SIGNAL; TIME DEPENDENT DENSITY OPERATOR; TWO LEVEL RYDBERG ATOMS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0038689587     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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