Measurement of the separation between atoms beyond diffraction limit

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Chang, Jun Tao ^a   Evers, Jörg ^a,b   Scully, Marlan O ^a,c   Suhail Zubairy, M ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR KERNPHYSIK   (Germany)

^c Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRECISION MEASUREMENT; RESONANCE FLUORESCENCE SPECTRUM; SPATIAL INFORMATION;

DIFFRACTION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; WAVES;

ATOMS;

EID: 33644881971     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.73.031803     Document Type: Article

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