Driving non-Gaussian to Gaussian states with linear optics

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 623201-623209

  Browne, Daniel E ^a   Eisert, Jens ^a,b   Scheel, Stefan ^a   Plenio, Martin B ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY; QUANTUM THEORY;

GAUSSIAN STATES;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0043011704     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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