Quantum communication and the creation of maximally entangled pairs of atoms over a noisy channel

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

Volumn 356, Issue 1743, 1998, Pages 1841-1851

  Briegel, H J ^a,b   Dur W ^a   Van Enk, S J ^c   Cirac, J I ^a,b   Zoller, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Absorption free channel; EPR correlations; Purification; Quantum communication; Quantum network; Quantum repeater

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042996323     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.1998.0252     Document Type: Article

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