Measurement of a negative value for the Wigner function of radiation

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 054101-054101

  Nogues, G ^a   Rauschenbeutel, A ^a   Osnaghi, S ^a   Bertet, P ^a   Brune, M ^a   Raimond, J M ^a   Haroche, S ^a   Lutterbach, L G ^b   Davidovich, L ^b  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROWAVE GENERATION; PHOTONS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES;

SUPERCONDUCTING CAVITIES; WIGNER FUNCTION;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 17744395490     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.62.054101     Document Type: Article

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