Quantifying entanglement in macroscopic systems

Nature

Volumn 453, Issue 7198, 2008, Pages 1004-1007

  Vedral, Vlatko ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROSCOPY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ANALYTIC METHOD; MACROSCOPY; MEASUREMENT; MICROSCOPY; PHOTON; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 45749115004     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07124     Document Type: Review

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