Maximally entangled mixed-state generation via local operations

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Aiello, A ^a   Puentes, G ^a   Voigt, D ^a   Woerdman, J P ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); PHOTONS; POLARIZATION;

LOCAL OPERATIONS; MIXED STATE GENERATION; SINGLE PHOTON; SINGLET POLARIZATION STATE;

ATOMIC PHYSICS;

EID: 34547348990     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.75.062118     Document Type: Article

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