Observation of coherent many-body Rabi oscillations

Nature Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 790-794

  Dudin, Y O ^a   Li, L ^a   Bariani, F ^a   Kuzmich, A ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; QUANTUM OPTICS;

COLD RUBIDIUM ATOMS; COUPLING STRENGTHS; INHOMOGENEOUS DISTRIBUTION; INHOMOGENEOUS SYSTEM; MANY-BODY STATE; RABI OSCILLATIONS; RYDBERG EXCITATION; SINGLE EXCITATION;

EXCITED STATES;

EID: 84868694875     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys2413     Document Type: Article

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