Experimental realization of macroscopic coherence by phase-covariant cloning of a single photon

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Nagali, Eleonora ^a   De Angelis, Tiziano ^a   Sciarrino, Fabio ^a,b   De Martini, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA   (Italy)

^b MUSEO STORICO DELLA FISICA E CENTRO STUDI E RICERCHE ENRICO FERMI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; PHOTONS; PROBABILISTIC LOGICS; WAVE FUNCTIONS;

FRINGE PATTERN; MULTIPHOTON STATES; PHASE-COVARIANT CLONING;

COHERENT LIGHT;

EID: 35649016781     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.76.042126     Document Type: Article

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