Covariant cloning machines for four-level systems

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 68, Issue 4 A, 2003, Pages

  Durt, Thomas ^a   Nagler, Bob ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; CRYPTOGRAPHY; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MIRRORS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; PHOTONS; SIGNAL ENCODING;

COVARIANT CLONING MACHINE; FOUR-LEVEL SYSTEM; HADAMARD TRANSFORMATION; QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 18144438986     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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