Optimization approach to entanglement distillation

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 167-172

  Opatrny T ^a,b   Kurizki, G ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

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EID: 0005714552     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.60.167     Document Type: Article

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