Motional quantum states of a trapped ion: Measurement and its back action

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 3322-3334

  Wallentowitz, S ^a   Vogel, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

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EID: 8644273627     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.54.3322     Document Type: Article

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