Scheme for direct observation of the Wigner characteristic function in cavity QED

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 1998, Pages R65-R68

  Kim, M S ^a   Antesberger, G ^a,b   Bodendorf, C T ^a,b   Walther, H ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

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EID: 4244184371     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.58.R65     Document Type: Article

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