Observation of quantum state collapse and revival due to the single-photon Kerr effect

Nature

Volumn 495, Issue 7440, 2013, Pages 205-209

  Kirchmair, Gerhard ^a   Vlastakis, Brian ^a   Leghtas, Zaki ^b   Nigg, Simon E ^a   Paik, Hanhee ^a   Ginossar, Eran ^c   Mirrahimi, Mazyar ^a,b   Frunzio, Luigi ^a   Girvin, S M ^a   Schoelkopf, R J ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INRIA   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAPSE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NONLINEARITY; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PARTICULATE MATTER; QUANTUM MECHANICS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; ATOM; KERR EFFECT; MICROWAVE RADIATION; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84874998076     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11902     Document Type: Article

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