Atomic pair-state interferometer: Controlling and measuring an interaction-induced phase shift in rydberg-atom pairs

Physical Review X

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Nipper, J ^a   Balewski, J B ^a   Krupp, A T ^a   Hofferberth, S ^a   Low R ^a   Pfau, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atomic and molecular physics; Biological physics; Quantum physics

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS; BIOLOGICAL PHYSICS; COHERENT DYNAMICS; DEPHASING; DISPERSIVE SHAPE; INTERACTION STRENGTH; MUTUAL INTERACTION; PHASE SHIFTED; QUANTUM PHYSICS; RYDBERG ATOMS; TIME-SCALES;

ATOMS; EXPERIMENTS; INTERFEROMETERS; PHASE SHIFTERS; RESONANCE;

PHASE SHIFT;

EID: 84872390635     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21603308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.2.031011     Document Type: Article

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