Climbing the Jaynes-Cummings ladder and observing its √n nonlinearity in a cavity QED system

Nature

Volumn 454, Issue 7202, 2008, Pages 315-318

  Fink, J M ^a   Goppl M ^a   Baur, M ^a   Bianchetti, R ^a   Leek, P J ^a   Blais, A ^b   Wallraff, A ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAVITY; ELECTRODYNAMICS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; NONLINEARITY; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

ARTICLE; ATOM; DIPOLE; DYNAMICS; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; JAYNES CUMMINGS MODEL; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 47649122889     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07112     Document Type: Article

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