Experimental entanglement purification of arbitrary unknown states

Nature

Volumn 423, Issue 6938, 2003, Pages 417-422

  Pan, Jian Wei ^a   Gasparoni, Sara ^a   Ursin, Rupert ^a   Weihs, Gregor ^a   Zeilinger, Anton ^a  

^a INSTITUT FÜR EXPERIMENTALPHYSIK   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTATION THEORY; ERROR ANALYSIS;

QUANTUM COMMUNICATION;

QUANTUM ELECTRONICS;

PHYSICS;

ARTICLE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PHASE TRANSITION; PHOTON; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURIFICATION; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY;

EID: 0038485625     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01623     Document Type: Article

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