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Nature Photonics 3, 197 - 199 (2009)
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2009.41
Magneto-optics: Hot atoms rotate light rapidly
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Robert Löw and Tilman Pfau are at the 5. Physikalisches Institut, Universität Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 57, 70569 Germany.
e-mail: t.pfau@physik.uni-stuttgart.de
Abstract
The ability to harness the Faraday effect on a short timescale in an ensemble of hot atoms may prove useful as a read-out tool for quantum information based on microscale vapour cells.
