Atomic homodyne detection of continuous-variable entangled twin-atom states

Nature

Volumn 480, Issue 7376, 2011, Pages 219-223

  Gross, C ^a   Strobel, H ^a   Nicklas, E ^a   Zibold, T ^a   Bar Gill, N ^b,c   Kurizki, G ^b   Oberthaler, M K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^c HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION; ELECTRON; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC PARTICLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 83055161456     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature10654     Document Type: Article

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