Detecting entanglement by symplectic uncertainty relations

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 347-354

  Serafini, Alessio ^a,b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

MULTIMODE CONTINUOUS VARIABLE STATES; MULTIMODE NOISY GREENBERGER-HORNE-ZEILINGER-LIKE STATES; SYMPLECTIC UNCERTAINTY RELATIONS;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 33947247398     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.24.000347     Document Type: Article

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