Demonstration of geometric operations on the Bloch vectors in an ensemble of rare-earth metal atoms

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Tian, Mingzhen ^a   Zafarullah, Ijaz ^b   Chang, Tiejun ^c   Mohan, R Krishna ^b   Babbitt, Wm Randall ^b  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINA; GARNETS; PHOTONS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; SILICATE MINERALS; THULIUM; YTTRIUM;

AVERAGE VALUES; BLOCH VECTORS; GEOMETRIC OPERATIONS; ION ENSEMBLES; PHOTON ECHOES; RARE-EARTH METALS; RELATIVE PHASIS; ROTATION ANGLES; THEORETICAL VALUES; TWO-LEVEL ATOMS; YTTRIUM ALUMINUM GARNETS;

ROTATION;

EID: 61649097341     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.79.022312     Document Type: Article

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