Heisenberg-limited sensitivity with decoherence-enhanced measurements

Nature Communications

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Braun, Daniel ^a,b   Martin, John ^a,b,c  

^a Université Paul Sabatier   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATOM; HEISENBERG LIMITED MEASUREMENT; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEASUREMENT; PHOTON; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; QUANTUM MECHANICS; QUANTUM THEORY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 79952335190     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1220     Document Type: Article

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