Exceeding the classical capacity limit in a quantum optical channel

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 16, 2003, Pages 167906/1-167906/4

  Fujiwara, Mikio ^a   Takeoka, Masahiro ^a   Mizuno, Jun ^a   Sasaki, Masahide ^a  

^a National Institute of Information and Communications Technology   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODING ERRORS; COHERENT LIGHT; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DECODING; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT SOURCES; MULTIMODE FIBERS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PHOTONS; PROBABILITY; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; STATISTICAL METHODS;

POLARIZING BEAM SPLITTER; QUANTUM CHANNEL CODING; QUANTUM OPTICAL CHANNEL; SUPERADDITIVE CODING; TWO-STATE SYSTEM;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 0038540610     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.167906     Document Type: Article

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