Entanglement in single-particle systems

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 463, Issue 2085, 2007, Pages 2277-2286

  Cunha, Marcelo O Terra ^a,b   Dunningham, Jacob A ^a   Vedral, Vlatko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Atom molecule entangled state; Entanglement; Field theory; Modes

Indexed keywords

EID: 36349010304     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2007.1887     Document Type: Article

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