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Cavity QED

Strength in numbers

Nature Physics volume 5, pages 455–456 (2009)Cite this article

Strong coupling of light and matter is the most important, yet challenging goal in the field of cavity quantum electrodynamics. This regime has now been reached by collectively exciting large crystals of trapped ions.

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Figure 1: Collective strong coupling with an ion crystal in a cavity.

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  1. Wolfgang Lange is in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QH, UK. w.lange@sussex.ac.uk,

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