Visibility of Young’s Interference Fringes: Scattered Light from Small Ion Crystals
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review Letters
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0031-9007,1079-7114
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.116.183002