Experimental study of a subsystem in an entangled two-photon state

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 2685-2688

  Strekalov, Dmitry V ^a   Kim, Yoon Ho ^a   Shih, Yanhua ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

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EID: 0005392312     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.60.2685     Document Type: Article

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