Scalable multiparticle entanglement of trapped ions

Nature

Volumn 438, Issue 7068, 2005, Pages 643-646

  Haffner H ^a,b   Hansel W ^a   Roos, C F ^a,b   Benhelm, J ^a,b   Chek al kar, D ^a   Chwalla, M ^a   Korber T ^a,b   Rapol, U D ^a,b   Riebe, M ^a   Schmidt, P O ^a   Becher, C ^a,c   Guhne O ^b   Dur W ^a,b   Blatt, R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^c SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; MANIPULATORS; PROCESSING; QUANTUM THEORY; TOMOGRAPHY;

DENSITY MATRICES; MULTIPARTICLE ENTANGLEMENT;

IONS;

ION;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; ION TRANSPORT; PARTICLE SIZE; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE; THEORETICAL STUDY; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 28444481383     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04279     Document Type: Article

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