Qubits versus bits for measuring an integral of a classical field

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 21, 2004, Pages

  Vaidman, Lev ^a   Mitrani, Zion ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUNCTIONS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS;

INFORMATION CONTENT; QUANTUM METHODS; QUBITS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 3142624747     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.217902     Document Type: Article

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