Generation of optical 'Schrödinger cats' from photon number states

Nature

Volumn 448, Issue 7155, 2007, Pages 784-786

  Ourjoumtsev, Alexei ^a   Jeong, Hyunseok ^b   Tualle Brouri, Rosa ^a   Grangier, Philippe ^a  

^a UNIV PARIS SUD   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; FUNDAMENTAL PARTICLE; LIGHT; PRECISION; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ATOM; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LIGHT; MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL DENSITY; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 34547991747     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature06054     Document Type: Article

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