A semiconductor source of triggered entangled photon pairs

Nature

Volumn 439, Issue 7073, 2006, Pages 178-182

  Stevenson, R M ^a   Young, R J ^a,b   Atkinson, P ^b   Cooper, K ^b   Ritchie, D A ^b   Shields, A J ^a  

^a TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONS; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; MAGNETIC FIELDS; PHOTONS; POLARIZATION; QUANTUM OPTICS; RADIATION;

CONTROLLED QUANTUM LOGIC OPERATIONS; ENTANGLED PHOTON PAIRS; QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION; RADIATIVE DECAY OF BIEXCITONS;

SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES;

QUANTUM DOT;

PHYSICS;

ARTICLE; LIGHT EMITTING DIODE; MAGNETIC FIELD; PHOTON; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMICONDUCTOR;

EID: 30544444958     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04446     Document Type: Article

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