Hardy nonlocality via few-body fragmentation imaging

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2004, Pages

  Feagin, James M ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETERS; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; LIGHT SCATTERING; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; PHOTONS;

HARDY LOGIC; INTERFERENCE EFFECTS; PLANE WAVE SCATTERING; RECOIL ION SPECTROSCOPY;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 4043066542     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.69.062103     Document Type: Article

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