Collective spin systems in dispersive optical cavity QED: Quantum phase transitions and entanglement

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Morrison, S ^a,b,c   Parkins, A S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER APPLICATIONS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PHASE TRANSITIONS; QUANTUM THEORY;

CAVITY OUTPUT FIELDS; LIPKIN-MESHKOV-GLICK MODELS; PROBE LASER TRANSMISSION;

SPIN DYNAMICS;

EID: 41949089413     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.77.043810     Document Type: Article

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