Synthesizing arbitrary two-photon polarization mixed states

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2005, Pages

  Wei, Tzu Chieh ^a   Altepeter, Joseph B ^a   Branning, David ^a,c   Goldbart, Paul M ^a   James, D F V ^b   Jeffrey, Evan ^a   Kwiat, Paul G ^a   Mukhopadhyay, Swagatam ^a   Peters, Nicholas A ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c ROSE HULMAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLARIZATION MIXED STATES; QUANTUM ERRORS; QUANTUM-INFORMATION PROCESSING (QIP); SPONTANEOUS PARAMETERIC DOWN-CONVERSION (SPDC);

CRYSTALS; ENTROPY; INTEGRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; POLARIZATION; QUANTUM THEORY; VACUUM;

PHOTONS;

EID: 18444387094     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.71.032329     Document Type: Article

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