Reconstruction of non-classical cavity field states with snapshots of their decoherence

Nature

Volumn 455, Issue 7212, 2008, Pages 510-514

  Deléglise, Samuel ^a   Dotsenko, Igor ^a,b   Sayrin, Clément ^a   Bernu, Julien ^a   Brune, Michel ^a   Raimond, Jean Michel ^a   Haroche, Serge ^a,b  

^a LABORATOIRE KASTLER BROSSEL   (France)

^b Laboratoire de Physiologie de la Perception et de l'Action   (France)

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Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; MICROSCOPY; PHOTOGRAPHY; QUANTUM MECHANICS; RECONSTRUCTION;

ARTICLE; ATOM; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; OSCILLATION; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM THEORY; RADIATION;

EID: 52949146716     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07288     Document Type: Article

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