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Ferdinand Schmidt-Kaler

Published Jan 1, 2007• 0 citations
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Abstract

Trapped by mirrors, a photon can be monitored from birth to death by a stream of passing atoms. The technique could also be used to entangle the quantum states of many atoms — a possible boon for quantum computing.

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