A photonic quantum information interface

Nature

Volumn 437, Issue 7055, 2005, Pages 116-120

  Tanzilli, S ^a   Tittel, W ^a   Halder, M ^a   Alibart, O ^b   Baldi, P ^b   Gisin, N ^a   Zbinden, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); INFORMATION THEORY; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; PHOTONS;

QUANTUM BITS; QUANTUM STATES; QUBIT TRANSFER;

QUANTUM THEORY;

PHYSICS;

ARTICLE; ATOM; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM THEORY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TELECOMMUNICATION;

EID: 27744512147     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04009     Document Type: Article

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