Tunable ion-photon entanglement in an optical cavity

Nature

Volumn 485, Issue 7399, 2012, Pages 482-485

  Stute, A ^a   Casabone, B ^a   Schindler, P ^a   Monz, T ^a   Schmidt, P O ^b,c   Brandstatter B ^a   Northup, T E ^a   Blatt, R ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b CENTRE FOR QUANTUM ENGINEERING AND SPACE TIME RESEARCH QUEST   (Germany)

^c INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^d ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION;

AMPLITUDE; ION; NITROGEN; OPTICAL PROPERTY; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PHOTON; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM YIELD; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84861445845     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11120     Document Type: Article

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