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Optics Communications

Nonclassical photon statistics of the light from a weakly driven cavity containing weakly driven two-level atoms

Hayato Goto, Kouichi Ichimura

Published Dec 28, 2004• 0 citations
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10.1016/j.optcom.2004.12.035

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