De Broglie wavelength of a non-local four-photon state

Nature

Volumn 429, Issue 6988, 2004, Pages 158-161

  Walther, Philip ^a   Pan, Jian Wei ^a,c   Aspelmeyer, Markus ^a   Ursin, Rupert ^a   Gasparoni, Sara ^a   Zeilinger, Anton ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT FÜR EXPERIMENTALPHYSIK   (Austria)

^b ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INTERFEROMETERS; INTERFEROMETRY; QUANTUM THEORY;

COHERENT SUPERPOSITION; MULTI-PARTICLE SYSTEMS; QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT;

PHOTONS;

MECHANICS; PHOTON FLUX DENSITY; WAVELENGTH;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; ELEMENTARY PARTICLE; FOUR PHOTON INTERFEROMETER; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERFEROMETER; INTERFEROMETRY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; OPTICS; PERFORMANCE; PERIODICITY; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; QUANTUM THEORY; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 2442711601     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02552     Document Type: Article

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