Progressive field-state collapse and quantum non-demolition photon counting

Nature

Volumn 448, Issue 7156, 2007, Pages 889-893

  Guerlin, Christine ^a   Bernu, Julien ^a   Deléglise, Samuel ^a   Sayrin, Clément ^a   Gleyzes, Sébastien ^a   Kuhr, Stefan ^a,c   Brune, Michel ^a   Raimond, Jean Michel ^a   Haroche, Serge ^a,b  

^a LABORATOIRE KASTLER BROSSEL   (France)

^b Laboratoire de Physiologie de la Perception et de l'Action   (France)

^c JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT; MEASUREMENT METHOD; QUANTUM MECHANICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; PHOTON; PHOTON CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM THEORY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

EID: 34548155447     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature06057     Document Type: Article

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