Quantum description of light-pulse scattering on a single atom in waveguides

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 12-

  Domokos, Peter ^a   Horak, Peter ^a   Ritsch, Helmut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

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EID: 84883395966     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.65.033832     Document Type: Article

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