Optical discrimination between spatial decoherence and thermalization of a massive object

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2004, Pages

  Henkel, C ^a   Nest, M ^a   Domokos, P ^b   Folman, R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b WIGNER RESEARCH CENTRE FOR PHYSICS   (Hungary)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COHERENT LIGHT; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ENERGY TRANSFER; LIGHT SCATTERING; MAGNETIC FLUX; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OPACITY; OSCILLATIONS; QUANTUM OPTICS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; THERMOANALYSIS;

CAVITY MODES; HARMONIC CONFINEMENT; OPTICAL RING INTERFEROMETERS; SPATIAL DECOHERENCE;

INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 19544371190     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.70.023810     Document Type: Article

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