Measurement of the internal state of a single atom without energy exchange

Nature

Volumn 475, Issue 7355, 2011, Pages 210-213

  Volz, Jürgen ^a   Gehr, Roger ^a   Dubois, Guilhem ^a,b   Estève, Jérôme ^a   Reichel, Jakob ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE KASTLER BROSSEL   (France)

^b Astron FIAMM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUANTUM DOT;

DETECTION METHOD; ENERGY FLUX; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HEATING; ION; MEASUREMENT METHOD; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

ARTICLE; ATOM; ENERGY TRANSFER; LIGHT; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SIMULATION;

EID: 79960412525     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature10225     Document Type: Article

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