Atom localization and center-of-mass wave-function determination via multiple simultaneous quadrature measurements

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Evers, Jörg ^a,b   Qamar, Shahid ^a,e   Zubairy, M Suhail ^a,c,d  

^a COMSATS Institute of Information Technology G 5 ^*  (Pakistan)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR KERNPHYSIK   (Germany)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY AT QATAR   (Qatar)

^e PAKISTAN INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCES   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSION (WAVES); ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; GROUND STATE; MEASUREMENT THEORY; MOLECULAR INTERACTIONS; WAVE FUNCTIONS;

ATOM LOCALIZATION; CENTER-OF-MASS WAVE-FUNCTION; STANDING-WAVE FIELDS;

ATOMIC PHYSICS;

EID: 34347346014     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.75.053809     Document Type: Article

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