Formation of Schrödinger-cat states in the Morse potential: Wigner function picture

Optics Express

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 376-381

  Földi, Péter ^a   Czirják, Attila ^a   Molnár, Balázs ^a   Benedict, Mihály G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; COHERENT LIGHT; DISSOCIATION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FUNCTIONS; MOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY; NOBELIUM; OSCILLATIONS;

MORSE POTENTIAL; SCHRONDINGER-CAT STATES; WAVE FUNCTIONS; WIGNER FUNCTION;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 0038751866     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.10.000376     Document Type: Article

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