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The Rochester Conferences on Coherence and Quantum Optics and the Quantum Information and Measurement meeting

Quantum Non-Demolition Measurement through Cavity QED in the Strong-Coupling Regime

Jian Cheng Yang, Paul G. Kwiat

Published Jan 1, 2013• 0 citations
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Abstract

We theoretically study photon-photon interactions mediated by a cavity-atom system in the strong-coupling regime of cavity quantum electrodynamics (QED), which may be harnessed for quantum non-demolition (QND) measurements.
DOI
10.1364/qim.2013.w6.29

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