Creating single collective atomic excitations via spontaneous Raman emission in inhomogeneously broadened systems: Beyond the adiabatic approximation

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 79, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Ottaviani, Carlo ^a,b   Simon, Christoph ^a   De Riedmatten, Hugues ^a   Afzelius, Mikael ^a   Lauritzen, Björn ^a   Sangouard, Nicolas ^a,c   Gisin, Nicolas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADIABATIC APPROXIMATIONS; ATOMIC ENSEMBLE; ATOMIC EXCITATIONS; ATOMIC GAS; COLLECTIVE EXCITATIONS; FAR-OFF-RESONANCE; QUANTUM COMMUNICATION PROTOCOLS; RAMAN TRANSITION; RESONANCE EXCITATION; SPONTANEOUS RAMAN;

COMMUNICATION; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; RESONANCE;

ATOMS;

EID: 67649221374     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.79.063828     Document Type: Article

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