Spontaneously generated atomic entanglement in free space reinforced by incoherent pumping

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 79, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Zhou, Ling ^a   Yang, Guo Hui ^a   Patnaik, Anil K ^b,c,d  

^a DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC ENTANGLEMENT; EXCITED-STATE LIFETIME; FREE SPACE; INCOHERENT PUMP; INCOHERENT PUMPING; MULTI-LEVEL SYSTEMS; RADIATIVE COUPLING; SOLID SUBSTRATES; TIME-SCALE; TWO-ATOM SYSTEM;

EXCITED STATES; PUMPS;

ATOMS;

EID: 66749173445     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.79.062102     Document Type: Article

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