Physical Review Letters · 1994 · 92 citations · 21 references
Natural SciencesPhysicsAtomic PhysicsOpticsQuantum MechanicsQuantum DynamicsQuantum Field TheoryQuantum MeasurementQuantum OpticsQuantum PhysicsQuantum StatesAtom-field InteractionsQuantum Measurement TheoryQuantum PhaseQuantum State EstimationQuantum State ManipulationQuantum State MeasurementQuantum State QuantizationQuantum State Reconstruction
We present a measurement setup based on the deflection of atoms from a quantized electromagnetic field and a strategy which leads to the knowledge of the complete quantum state of this field. The same setup reveals the expectation value of the phase operator ${e}^{i\ensuremath{\varphi}}$.
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