Atomic Talbot interferometry as a sensitive tool for cavity quantum electrodynamics

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 236011-236019

  Rohwedder, B ^a   Franca Santos M ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

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