Twin-atom beams

Nature Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 608-611

  Bücker, Robert ^a   Grond, Julian ^a,b,c,d   Manz, Stephanie ^a   Berrada, Tarik ^a   Betz, Thomas ^a   Koller, Christian ^a   Hohenester, Ulrich ^b   Schumm, Thorsten ^a,c   Perrin, Auŕlien ^a,c,e   Schmiedmayer, Jörg ^a  

^a TU WIEN   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c Vienna University   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 13   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXCITED STATES; LIGHT; QUANTUM COMMUNICATION; QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT;

BACKGROUND SIGNALS; DETECTION NOISE; EFFICIENT EMISSION; INTERACTING PARTICLES; MASSIVE PARTICLES; PRECISION METROLOGY; TRANSVERSAL MODES; ULTRACOLD ATOMIC GAS;

ATOMS;

EID: 79961029585     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1992     Document Type: Article

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