Superconducting analogs of quantum optical phenomena: Macroscopic quantum superpositions and squeezing in a superconducting quantum-interference device ring

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2004, Pages

  Everitt, M J ^a   Clark, T D ^a   Stiffell, P B ^a   Vourdas, A ^b   Ralph, J F ^c   Prance, R J ^a   Prance, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COHERENT LIGHT; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; HAMILTONIANS; MAGNETIC FLUX; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POLYNOMIALS; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUANTUM THEORY; SQUIDS;

DECOHERENCE EFFECTS; JOSEPHSON COUPLING ENERGIES; MACROSCOPIC SUPERPOSITION STATES; WEYL FUNCTIONS;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 2942527037     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.69.043804     Document Type: Article

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