Squeezing and entanglement in a Bose-Einstein condensate

Nature

Volumn 455, Issue 7217, 2008, Pages 1216-1219

  Esteve J ^a   Gross, C ^a   Weller, A ^a   Giovanazzi, S ^a   Oberthaler, M K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

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Indexed keywords

CONDENSATE; INTERFEROMETRY; MEASUREMENT METHOD; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ATOM; INTERFEROMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

EID: 55249117458     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07332     Document Type: Article

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