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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC)

The Journey from Manipulating Single Quantum Systems to Quantum Information Processing

P. L. Knight

Published Jun 1, 2019• 0 citations
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Abstract

Quantum Optics for some years has concentrated on the role of discreteness, of the limits of the uncertainty relation in governing fluctuations and the nature of quantum correlations beyond what is allowed classically. Progress in identifying, generating and characterizing nonclassical states at the single quantum system level has been spectacular, for example using single trapped laser cooled ions or cavity QED.

DOI
10.1109/cleoe-eqec.2019.8872763

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