Observing a coherent superposition of an atom and a molecule

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Dowling, Mark R ^a   Bartlett, Stephen D ^b   Rudolph, Terry ^c   Spekkens, Robert W ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE INTERFERENCE; FERMIONS; INTERFEROMETRY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; QUANTUM THEORY; STATISTICS;

BOSE EINSTEIN CONDENSATES; RAMSEY INTERFEROMETRY; RAMSEY TYPE INTERFERENCE;

ATOMIC PHYSICS;

EID: 33751504674     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.74.052113     Document Type: Article

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