Excitation of an atomic electron to a coherent superposition of macroscopically distinct states

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 77, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1913-1916

  Noel, Michael W ^a   Stroud, C R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

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EID: 4243346871     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.77.1913     Document Type: Article

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