Quantum random walks and wave-packet reshaping at the single-photon level

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Souto Ribeiro, P H ^a   Walborn, S P ^a   Raitz, C ^a   Davidovich, L ^a   Zagury, N ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY (APS); PARAMETRIC DOWN-CONVERSION (PDC); PHOTON WAVE PACKETS; PHYSICAL PROCESSES; QUANTUM RANDOM WALK (QRW); RANDOM WALK (RW); SINGLE PHOTON LEVEL; SINGLE PHOTONS; SINGLE STEP; TWIN PHOTONS; WAVE PACKET (WP);

PHOTONS;

EID: 47749102985     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.78.012326     Document Type: Article

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