Experimental extraction of an entangled photon pair from two identically decohered pairs

Nature

Volumn 421, Issue 6921, 2003, Pages 343-346

  Yamamoto, Takashi ^a,b   Koashi, Masato ^a,b   Özdemir, Şahin Kaya ^a,b   Imoto, Nobuyuki ^a,b,c  

^a GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c Kashino Diverse Brain Research Laboratory of NTT Communication Science Laboratories   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; DISTILLATION; ENERGY DISSIPATION; EXTRACTION; QUANTUM THEORY;

PHOTON PAIRS;

PHOTONS;

PHYSICS;

ARTICLE; DISTILLATION; EXTRACTION; FILTRATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PHOTON; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

EID: 0037461736     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01358     Document Type: Article

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