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Free access to Nobel winners' papers

09 Oct 2012 Hamish Johnston
Serge Haroche's cat states


The time evolution of a Schrödinger’s cat state realized by Serge Haroche and colleagues.

By Hamish Johnston

To celebrate the 2012 Nobel Prize for Physics, IOP Publishing has collected 30 papers published in its journals by winners Serge Haroche and David Wineland. Articles in this collection are free to read until the end of February 2013.

The above image is taken from a paper by Haroche and colleagues entitled “Manipulating and probing microwave fields in a cavity by quantum non-demolition photon counting” (Phys. Scr. T137 014014). You can read it here.

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