Continuous measurement with traveling-wave probes

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2003, Pages

  Silberfarb, Andrew ^a   Deutsch, Ivan H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FARADAY EFFECT; HAMILTONIANS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LASER PULSES; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL ROTATION; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PHOTONS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; QUANTUM THEORY;

FARADAY ROTATION; FOCK-STATE PULSE; POLARIZED LASER PROBE; QUANTUM TRAJECTORY; TRAVELLING-WAVE PROBE;

ATOMIC PHYSICS;

EID: 0141572474     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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