High-efficiency detection of a single quantum of angular momentum by suppression of optical pumping

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 15, 2004, Pages

  McDonnell, M J ^a   Stacey, J P ^a   Webster, S C ^a   Home, J P ^a   Ramos, A ^a   Lucas, D M ^a   Stacey, D N ^a   Steane, A M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; FLUORESCENCE; LASER BEAMS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; OPTICAL PUMPING; PROBABILITY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; VECTORS;

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; COHERENT POPULATION TRAPPING (CPT); QUANTUM COMPUTERS; SPIN STATES;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 11344250299     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.153601     Document Type: Article

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