Quantum computation, entanglement and state reduction

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 356, Issue 1743, 1998, Pages 1927-1939

  Penrose, Roger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Quantum computation; Quantum entanglement; Quantum gravity experiment; Quantum information; Quantum state reduction; Schr dinger Newton equation

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042993694     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.1998.0256     Document Type: Article

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