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This is work, the concept of which I have been mulling by myself and with Vern Sandberg over the last few years. Vera is now in the Medium Energy Physics Division at Los Alamos. He used to be in Kip Thorn’s group at Caltech and before that he was with John Wheeler’s group at Texas. Also, the stuff I’ll be talking about tomorrow partially involves work which we jointly did with Bob Fisher, who is an experimental laser man.
This written version is based upon a recording of the two lectures actually delivered. The text has been edited to include topics raised by the questions and comments of the participants, both at the lectures and during breaks.
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Nieto, M.M. (1986). What are Squeezed States Really Like?. In: Moore, G.T., Scully, M.O. (eds) Frontiers of Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics. NATO ASI Series, vol 135. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2181-1_22
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