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  • Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference
  • OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 1997),
  • paper QMB5

Experimental determination of the motional Wigner function of a helium atom

T. Pfau, Ch. Kurtsiefer, and J. Mlynek

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Abstract

To describe most completely the state of a system, the Wigner function can be used. An interesting property of Wigner functions of a quantum mechanical system is that they may become negative, which has no classical interpretation.

© 1997 Optical Society of America

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