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Phys. Rev. A 59, R950 - R953 (1999)

Simple scheme for state measurement

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P. J. Bardroff, M. T. Fontenelle, and S. Stenholm
Department of Physics, Royal Institute of Technology (Kungl. Tekniska Högskolan), Lindstedtsvägen 24, S-10044 Stockholm, Sweden

Rapid Communication Received 11 September 1998

We present a simple and fast scheme to measure the state of a trapped atom. Our method directly yields the characteristic function of the Wigner function avoiding a demanding data analysis. We show that our method can be readily applied to an actual experiment.


©1999 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRA/v59/pR950
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.59.R950
PACS: 42.50.Dv, 03.65.Bz

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