Quantum limits to center-of-mass measurements

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Vaughan, Timothy ^a   Drummond, Peter ^a   Leuchs, Gerd ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOSONS; ELECTRON TRAPS; FERMIONS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; LIGHT MEASUREMENT; THERMAL EFFECTS;

PARTICLE NUMBER FLUCTUATIONS; QUANTUM PARTICLES; ULTRA LOW TEMPERATURES;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 33947682309     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.75.033617     Document Type: Article

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