Distilling two-atom distance information from intensity-intensity correlation functions

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Chang, Jun Tao ^a   Evers, Jörg ^a,b   Zubairy, M Suhail ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR KERNPHYSIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; DISTILLATION; FLUORESCENCE; FUNCTIONS; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; QUANTUM THEORY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CORRELATION FUNCTIONS; GAIN INFORMATION; INTERATOMIC DISTANCES; TIME-EVOLUTION EQUATIONS; TWO-LEVEL ATOMS;

ATOMIC PHYSICS;

EID: 33750535805     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.74.043820     Document Type: Article

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