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Decoherence and Quantum-state Measurement in Quantum Optics
Published 2003-01-23Version 1
This paper discusses work developed in recent years, in the domain of quantum optics, which has led to a better understanding of the classical limit of quantum mechanics. New techniques have been proposed, and experimentally demonstrated, for characterizing and monitoring in real time the quantum state of an electromagnetic field in a cavity. They allow the investigation of the dynamics of the decoherence process by which a quantum-mechanical superposition of coherent states of the field becomes a statistical mixture.
Comments: 19 pages, 6 figures in encapsulated postscript format, Springer LNP LaTeX macros. To appear in the Proceedings of the Conference on Decoherence, Information, Complexity, and Entropy (DICE2002), Piombino, Italy, September, 2002 (edited by T.Elze)
Categories: quant-ph
Keywords: quantum optics, quantum-state measurement, paper discusses work, quantum mechanics, coherent states
Tags: conference paper
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