Distinguishing genuine entangled two-photon-polarization states from independently generated pairs of entangled photons

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 15, 2004, Pages

  Tsujino, Kenji ^a   Hofmann, Holger F ^a,b   Takeuchi, Shigeki ^a,b   Sasaki, Keiji ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DATA PROCESSING; FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL CORRELATION; PHOTONS; POLARIZATION; PUMPING (LASER);

DEPOLARIZATION; ENTANGLED ONE-PHOTON POLARIZATION (EOP); ENTANGLED TWO-PHOTON POLARIZATION (ETP); QUANTUM COMMUNICATION;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 2542500094     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.153602     Document Type: Article

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