PROBING A QUANTUM STATE VIA ATOMIC DEFLECTION

被引:93
作者
FREYBERGER, M
HERKOMMER, AM
机构
[1] Abteilung für Quantenphysik, Universität Ulm
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.72.1952
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
We present a measurement setup based on the deflection of atoms from a quantized electromagnetic field and a strategy which leads to the knowledge of the complete quantum state of this field. The same setup reveals the expectation value of the phase operator e(iphi).
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页码:1952 / 1955
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