'Designer atoms' for quantum metrology

Nature

Volumn 443, Issue 7109, 2006, Pages 316-319

  Roos, C F ^a,b   Chwalla, M ^a   Kim, K ^a   Riebe, M ^a   Blatt, R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRIC CLOCKS; ELECTRIC FREQUENCY MEASUREMENT; QUANTUM THEORY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

ELECTRIC QUADRUPOLE MOMENT; QUANTUM INFORMATION PROCESSING; QUANTUM METROLOGY;

QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY;

CALCIUM ION;

INFORMATION; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SCATTERING; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO;

ARTICLE; ATOM; CALCULATION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAGNETIC FIELD; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRUPOLE MOMENT; QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY; QUANTUM MECHANICS; QUANTUM METROLOGY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 33748928802     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature05101     Document Type: Article

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