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Cavity QED — where’s the Q?

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Confined Photon Systems

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We discuss recent experiments in cavity QED with strongly coupled single atoms, studied one at a time, in real time. Particular emphasis is placed on defining what is, and is not “quantum” about particular parameter regimes of the system.

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  1. Norman Bridge Laboratory of Physics, California Institute of Technology, 91125, Pasadena, CA, USA

    C. J. Hood, T. W. Lynn, H. Mabuchi, J. Ye & H. J. Kimble

  2. Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA, USA

    M. S. Chapman

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Henri Benisty Claude Weisbuch École Polytechnique Jean-Michel Gérard Romuald Houdré John Rarity

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Hood, C.J., Lynn, T.W., Chapman, M.S., Mabuchi, H., Ye, J., Kimble, H.J. (1999). Cavity QED — where’s the Q?. In: Benisty, H., Weisbuch, C., Polytechnique, É., Gérard, JM., Houdré, R., Rarity, J. (eds) Confined Photon Systems. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 531. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0104385

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