A quantum Newton's cradle

Nature

Volumn 440, Issue 7086, 2006, Pages 900-903

  Kinoshita, Toshiya ^a   Wenger, Trevor ^a   Weiss, David S ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLISION AVOIDANCE; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); INTERFEROMETRY; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; NUMERICAL METHODS; SENSORS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

EQUAL ENERGY POINTS; FUNDAMENTAL ASSUMPTION; HARMONIC TRAPPING; THERMAL EQUILIBRIUM;

STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

INTERFEROMETRY; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

ARTICLE; ATOM; GAS; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT ABSORPTION; OPTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM THEORY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME;

EID: 33645876470     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04693     Document Type: Article

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