Quantum nonlinear optics with single photons enabled by strongly interacting atoms

Nature

Volumn 488, Issue 7409, 2012, Pages 57-60

  Peyronel, Thibault ^a   Firstenberg, Ofer ^a,b   Liang, Qi Yu ^a   Hofferberth, Sebastian ^a,b   Gorshkov, Alexey V ^c   Pohl, Thomas ^d   Lukin, Mikhail D ^b   Vuletić, Vladan ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK KOMPLEXER SYSTEME   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; FUNDAMENTAL PARTICLE; NONLINEARITY; OPTICAL METHOD; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

ARTICLE; ATOM; GAS; LIGHT; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MAGNETIC FIELD; OPTICS; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY;

EID: 84864464947     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11361     Document Type: Article

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