Measurement-induced entanglement for excitation stored in remote atomic ensembles

Nature

Volumn 438, Issue 7069, 2005, Pages 828-832

  Chou, C W ^a   De Riedmatten, H ^a   Felinto, D ^a   Polyakov, S V ^a   Van Enk, S J ^b   Kimble, H J ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; PHOTONS; RADIO INTERFERENCE;

QUANTUM INFORMATION SCIENCE; QUANTUM MEMORY;

QUANTUM THEORY;

PHYSICS;

ARTICLE; ATOM; EXCITATION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; OPTICS; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; STATISTICS;

EID: 28644448875     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04353     Document Type: Article

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