Entangling independent photons by timemeasurement

Nature Physics

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 692-695

  Halder, Matthäus ^a   Beveratos, Alexios ^a   Gisin, Nicolas ^a   Scarani, Valerio ^a   Simon, Christoph ^a   Zbinden, Hugo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOTONS; QUANTUM COMMUNICATION;

BELL-STATE MEASUREMENTS; CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATIONS; CONTINUOUS WAVE SOURCE; ENTANGLED STATE; ENTANGLEMENT SWAPPING; JOINT MEASUREMENT; QUANTUM PHYSICS; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION;

QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT;

EID: 34848918935     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys700     Document Type: Article

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