Experimental test of quantum nonlocality in three-photon Greenberger- Horne-Zeilinger entanglement

Nature

Volumn 403, Issue 6769, 2000, Pages 515-519

  Pan, Jlan Wei ^a   Bouwmeester, Dik ^b   Daniell, Matthew ^a   Weinfurter, Harald ^c   Zellinger, Anton ^a  

^a INSTITUT FÜR EXPERIMENTALPHYSIK   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

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ARTICLE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PHYSICS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

EID: 0034598776     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35000514     Document Type: Article

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