Quantum information with Rydberg atoms

Reviews of Modern Physics

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 2313-2363

  Saffman, M ^a   Walker, T G ^a   Molmer K ^b  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC PROPERTIES; DIPOLE DIPOLE INTERACTIONS; EXPERIMENTAL ASPECTS; LONG RANGE INTERACTIONS; MANY-BODY; NEUTRAL ATOMS; OF QUANTUM-INFORMATION; PRINCIPAL QUANTUM NUMBERS; QUANTUM GATES; QUANTUM INFORMATION; QUANTUM INTERFACES; QUANTUM-INFORMATION PROCESSING; RADIATIVE LIFETIME; RYDBERG; RYDBERG ATOMS; TWO-QUBIT GATES;

ATOMIC BEAMS; DATA PROCESSING; LOGIC GATES; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; QUANTUM OPTICS; RYDBERG STATES;

ATOMS;

EID: 77956137866     PISSN: 00346861     EISSN: 15390756     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/RevModPhys.82.2313     Document Type: Article

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