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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Reversal of Photon-Scattering Decoherence

Roee Ozeri

Published Jan 1, 2012• 0 citations
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Abstract

We study superposition states of a trapped ion spin during photon scattering. We observe the emergence of a spin-measurement basis. Using ion-photon entanglement we are able to reverse the effect of photon scattering decoherence.
DOI
10.1364/qels.2012.qth1e.7

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