Entangling power of passive optical elements

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 479041-479044

  Wolf, Michael M ^a   Eisert, Jens ^b,c   Plenio, Martin B ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

ENTANGLING THEORY; GAUSSIAN STATES; PASSIVE ELEMENTS;

OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS;

EID: 4043159884     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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