Comparison of the Hanbury Brown-Twiss effect for bosons and fermions

Nature

Volumn 445, Issue 7126, 2007, Pages 402-405

  Jeltes, T ^a   McNamara, J M ^a   Hogervorst, W ^a   Vassen, W ^a   Krachmalnicoff, V ^b   Schellekens, M ^b   Perrin, A ^b   Chang, H ^b   Boiron, D ^b   Aspect, A ^b   Westbrook, C I ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b CNRS   (France)

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ANGULAR MOMENTUM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HELIUM ISOTOPE; QUANTUM MECHANICS; STATISTICAL APPLICATION;

ARTICLE; BOSON; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FERMION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33846527082     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature05513     Document Type: Article

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