Published October 2003 | Version v1
Journal article

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

  • 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)

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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

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Journal Title
Physical Review. A
Journal Volume
68
Journal Issue
4
Journal Page Range
p. 046302-046302.1
ISSN
1050-2947
CODEN
PLRAAN

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