Quantum knots

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5436, Issue , 2004, Pages 268-284

  Kauffman, Louis H ^a   Lomonaco Jr , Samuel J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b Baltimore County   (United States)

Author keywords

Braiding; Knotting; Linking; Matrix; Network; Non locality; Quantum entanglement; Quantum knot; Topological entanglement

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; SUPERFLUID HELIUM; TOPOLOGY; VORTEX FLOW;

BRAIDING; KNOTTING; NON-LOCALITY; QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT; QUANTUM EVOLUTION; QUANTUM KNOTS; TOPOLOGICAL ENTANGLEMENT;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 10444261998     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.544072     Document Type: Conference Paper

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