Demonstration of a scheme for the generation of "event-ready" entangled photon pairs from a single-photon source

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Zhang, Qiang ^a,b   Bao, Xiao Hui ^a   Lu, Chao Yang ^a   Zhou, Xiao Qi ^a   Yang, Tao ^a   Rudolph, Terry ^c   Pan, Jian Wei ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; LIGHT; OPTICS; QUANTUM COMPUTERS;

AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY (APS); BELL'S INEQUALITIES; ENTANGLED PHOTON PAIRS; EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES; LINEAR OPTICAL ELEMENTS; LINEAR OPTICS QUANTUM COMPUTATION; PROOF-OF-PRINCIPLE (POP); SINGLE PHOTON SOURCES; SINGLE PHOTONS;

PHOTONS;

EID: 45249112125     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.77.062316     Document Type: Article

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