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Retrodiction with Two-Level Atoms: Atomic Previvals and Micromaser Field Measurements

John Jeffers, Stephen Mark Barnett, David Thomas Pegg

Published Jan 1, 2003• 0 citations
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10.1007/978-1-4419-8907-9_81

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