Quantum walk in position space with single optically trapped atoms

Science

Volumn 325, Issue 5937, 2009, Pages 174-177

  Karski, Michal ^a   Förster, Leonid ^a   Choi, Jai Min ^a   Steffen, Andreas ^a   Alt, Wolfgang ^a   Meschede, Dieter ^a   Widera, Artur ^a  

^a INSTITUT FÜR ANGEWANDTE PHYSIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR AUTOMATON; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; QUANTUM MECHANICS; RANDOM WALK METHOD; TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ATOM; CELL; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; QUANTUM WALK; SCIENCE; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 67650456294     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1174436     Document Type: Article

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