Fresnel representation of the Wigner function: An operational approach

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2003, Pages

  Lougovski, P ^a,b   Solano, E ^a,c   Zhang, Z M ^a,d   Walther, H ^a,b   Mack, H ^e   Schleich, W P ^e  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DEL PERÚ   (Peru)

^d SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; CORRELATION METHODS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GROUND STATE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR VIBRATIONS; PHOTONS; PROBABILITY; QUANTUM THEORY;

ATOMIC DYNAMICS; FRESNEL TRANSFORM; QUANTUM STATE ENDOSCOPY; RABI OSCILLATIONS; WIGNER FUNCTION;

ATOMIC PHYSICS;

EID: 0041707990     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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