Happy centenary, photon

Nature

Volumn 433, Issue 7023, 2005, Pages 230-238

  Zeilinger, Anton ^a,b   Weihs, Gregor ^a   Jenmewein, Thomas ^b   Aspelmeyer, Markus ^a  

^a INSTITUT FÜR EXPERIMENTALPHYSIK   (Austria)

^b ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY; QUANTUM OPTICS;

CORPUSCULAR CHARACTER; QUANTUM COMPUTERS; QUANTUM INFORMATION PROCESSING;

PHOTONS;

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;

CAREER; COMPUTER SYSTEM; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EVOLUTION; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; OPTICS; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY; QUANTUM MECHANICS; REVIEW; TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 12744274559     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03280     Document Type: Review

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