Entangled photon-electron states and the number-phase minimum uncertainty states of the photon field

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Varro S ^a  

^a WIGNER RESEARCH CENTRE FOR PHYSICS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANNING; ELECTRODYNAMICS; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ELECTRONS; FLOW INTERACTIONS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; ONTOLOGY; PHOTONS; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; RADIATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; WAVES;

(U ,V) OPERATOR; DENSITY OPERATORS; ENERGY EIGEN VALUES; ENTANGLEMENT ENTROPIES; EXACT ANALYTIC SOLUTIONS; EXPANSION COEFFICIENTS; FREE ELECTRONS; GAUSSIAN; JOINT PROBABILITY; MATHEMATICAL CONSTRUCTIONS; MINIMUM UNCERTAINTY STATES; NUMBER STATE; PHOTON NUMBERS; PHOTON-NUMBER DISTRIBUTION; PHYSICAL MEANINGS; PHYSICAL SIGNIFICANCE; QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS (QED); RADIATION FIELDS; SIMULTANEOUS DETECTION;

EQUATIONS OF STATE;

EID: 46749093832     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/10/5/053028     Document Type: Article

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