Observing quantum nonlocality in the entanglement between modes of massive particles

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Ashhab, S ^a   Maruyama, Koji ^a,b   Nori, Franco ^a,c  

^a INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; OPTICS; PROBABILITY; QUANTUM THEORY;

ENTANGLEMENT; NONLOCAL QUANTUM CORRELATIONS; QUANTUM NONLOCALITY; SINGLE PARTICLE;

ELEMENTARY PARTICLES;

EID: 33847616007     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.75.022108     Document Type: Article

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