Chirped pulses, gauss sums and the factorization of numbers

International Journal of Modern Physics B

Volumn 20, Issue 11-13, 2006, Pages 1893-1916

  Merkel, Wolfgang ^a   Crasser, Oliver ^a   Haug, Florian ^a   Lutz, Eric ^a   Mack, Holger ^a   Freyberger, Matthias ^a   Schleich, Wolfgang P ^a   Averbukh, Ilya ^b   Bienert, Marc ^c   Girard, Bertrand ^d   Maier, Helmut ^a   Paulus, Gerhard G ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^c INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS FÍSICAS   (Mexico)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autocorrelation function; Chirped laser pulses; Factorization; Gau sums; Quantum rotor; Riemann function; Two photon transition

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744728092     PISSN: 02179792     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S021797920603439X     Document Type: Conference Paper

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