Quantum information in cavity quantum electrodynamics: Logical gates, entanglement engineering and 'Schrödinger-cat states'

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 361, Issue 1808, 2003, Pages 1339-1347

  Haroche, S ^a,b  

^a Dept de Phys de l'Ecl Normale S ^*  (France)

^b l'alimentation et l'Environnement   (France)

Author keywords

Complementarity; Decoherence; Entanglement; Mesoscopic superpositions; Quantum information

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141923375     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2003.1204     Document Type: Conference Paper

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