Entanglement-based quantum communication over 144km

Nature Physics

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 481-486

  Ursin, R ^a   Tiefenbacher, F ^a,b   Schmitt Manderbach, T ^c,d   Weier, H ^d   Scheidl, T ^a,b   Lindenthal, M ^b   Blauensteiner, B ^a   Jennewein, T ^b   Perdigues, J ^e   Trojek, P ^c,d   Omer B ^f   Furst M ^d   Meyenburg, M ^f   Rarity, J ^g   Sodnik, Z ^e   Barbieri, C ^h   Weinfurter, H ^c,d   Zeilinger, A ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT FÜR EXPERIMENTALPHYSIK   (Austria)

^b ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^e EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^f ARC SEIBERSDORF RESEARCH GMBH   (Austria)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY; QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT; QUANTUM OPTICS;

CANARY ISLANDS; CLASSICAL COMMUNICATION; EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; FREE SPACES; OF QUANTUM-INFORMATION; OPTICAL GROUND STATION; QUANTUM TELEPORTATION;

QUANTUM COMMUNICATION;

EID: 34547480312     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys629     Document Type: Article

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