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Reply I to 'Comment on 'Some implications of the quantum nature of laser fields for quantum computations''

Journal Article · · Physical Review. A
 [1];  [2]
  1. Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, 600-700 Mountain Avenue, Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974 (United States)
  2. Norman Bridge Laboratory of Physics, 12-33 California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125 (United States)
We show that Itano's arguments confirm our conclusion, that entanglement of the atom with the laser field contributes a small but nonzero amount to the total decoherence of an atom in a laser field. This small effect scales as 1/n-bar with n-bar the average number of photons in the laser pulse.
OSTI ID:
20640429
Journal Information:
Physical Review. A, Journal Name: Physical Review. A Journal Issue: 4 Vol. 68; ISSN 1050-2947; ISSN PLRAAN
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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