Coherent triplet excitation suppresses the heading error of the avian compass

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Katsoprinakis, G E ^a,b   Dellis, A T ^a,b   Kominis, I K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND LASER   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR SENSITIVITY; BIOLOGICAL SENSORS; COHERENT EXCITATIONS; HEADING ERROR; MAGNETIC COMPASS; MIGRATORY BIRDS; OF QUANTUM-INFORMATION; QUANTUM ENGINEERING; QUANTUM ZENO EFFECT; RADICAL ION PAIRS; REACTION YIELDS; TRIPLET EXCITATION;

PRECISION ENGINEERING;

COMPASSES (MAGNETIC);

EID: 77956590472     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/12/8/085016     Document Type: Article

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