Quantum harmonic oscillator state synthesis and analysis

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 2995, Issue , 1997, Pages 43-55

  Itano, Wayne M ^a   Monroe, Christopher R ^a   Meekhof, D M ^a   Leibfried, D ^a   King, B E ^a   Wineland, David J ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ion storage; Laser cooling; Quantum computation; Quantum state generation; Quantum state tomography

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE EARTH METALS; ATOMIC PHYSICS; ATOMS; BERYLLIUM; COHERENT LIGHT; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COOLING; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC FIELDS; IONS; LASER COOLING; LASERS; MEDICAL IMAGING; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); OSCILLATORS (MECHANICAL); QUANTUM COMPUTERS; QUANTUM THEORY; TOMOGRAPHY;

CAT STATES; DECOHERENCE; DENSITY MATRICES; HARMONIC OSCILLATORS; ION STORAGE; PAUL TRAP; QUANTUM COMPUTATION; QUANTUM STATE GENERATION; QUANTUM STATE TOMOGRAPHY; QUANTUM SUPERPOSITIONS; SUPERPOSITION STATES; WAVE FUNCTIONS; WIGNER FUNCTIONS (WF);

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 58749101697     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.273771     Document Type: Conference Paper

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