Maximally entangled mixed states: Creation and concentration

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 13, 2004, Pages

  Peters, Nicholas A ^a   Altepeter, Joseph B ^a   Branning, David ^a,b   Jeffrey, Evan R ^a   Wei, Tzu Chieh ^a   Kwiat, Paul G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b ROSE HULMAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; COHERENT LIGHT; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ENTROPY; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PHOTONS; POLARIZATION;

HILBERT SPACE; LINEAR ENTROPY; MIXED STATES; QUBITS;

MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES;

EID: 2342571478     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.133601     Document Type: Article

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