Super-resolving phase measurements with a multiphoton entangled state

Nature

Volumn 429, Issue 6988, 2004, Pages 161-164

  Mitchell, M W ^a   Lundeen, J S ^a   Steinberg, A M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; INTERFEROMETRY; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE STUDIES; MULTIPHOTON ENTANGLED STATES; PHASE MEASUREMENTS;

PHOTONS;

INTERFEROMETRY; PHYSICS;

ARTICLE; ATOM; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; CALCULATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; GRAVITY; INTERFEROMETRY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT; OPTICS; PHOTON; PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; ROTATION; VACUUM; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 2442714078     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02493     Document Type: Article

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