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Physics Bulletin

Frontiers in Quantum Optics: Malvern Physics Series

G.H.C. New

Published Jun 1, 1987• 1 citation
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E R Pike and Sarben Sarkar (eds) 1986 Bristol: Adam Hilger xii + 587 pp price £29.50 (I0P members' price £23.60) ISBN 0 85274 577 X Quite simply this is the best volume of conference proceedings on quantum optics to appear for several years. It stems from a symposium held in Malvern in December 1985 which was attended by most of the big names in the field.

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10.1088/0031-9112/38/6/031

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