Detecting mode entanglement: The role of coherent states, superselection rules, and particle statistics

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Ashhab, S ^a   Maruyama, Koji ^a,b   Nori, Franco ^a,c  

^a INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; FERMIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

BOSONIC COHERENT STATES; COHERENT STATES; MODE ENTANGLEMENT; PARTICLE STATISTICS; QUANTUM NONLOCALITY; SUPERSELECTION RULES;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 36349003492     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.76.052113     Document Type: Article

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