Entanglement, EPR correlations, and mesoscopic quantum superposition by the high-gain quantum injected parametric amplification

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Caminati, Marco ^a   De Martini, Francesco ^a   Perris, Riccardo ^a   Sciarrino, Fabio ^a,b   Secondi, Veronica ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b MUSEO STORICO DELLA FISICA E CENTRO STUDI E RICERCHE ENRICO FERMI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; PHOTONS; QUANTUM THEORY;

NONLINEAR PARAMETRIC GAIN; QUANTUM CLONING; QUANTUM COHERENCE;

OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS;

EID: 33845443972     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.74.062304     Document Type: Article

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