Ascertaining the values of σx, σy, and σz of a polarization qubit

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 17, 2003, Pages

  Schulz, Oliver ^a   Steinhübl, Ruprecht ^a   Weber, Markus ^a   Englert, Berthold Georg ^b,c   Kurtsiefer, Christian ^a   Weinfurter, Harald ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUMERICAL METHODS; PHOTONS; PROBABILITY; QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY; QUANTUM OPTICS;

PHOTONIC QUANTUM COMPUTERS; POLARIZATION QUBIT; QUANTUM COMMUNICATION; SINGLE PHOTON TWO QUBIT QUANTUM GATES;

LIGHT POLARIZATION;

EID: 4243367098     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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