Photon engineering for quantum information processing

Quantum Information and Computation

Volumn 3, Issue SPEC. ISS., 2003, Pages 480-502

  U'Ren, A B ^a   Banaszek, K ^a   Walmsley, I A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bell state measurement; Optical quantum computing; Parametric down conversion; Polarization entanglement; Quantum communication

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; PHOTONS; POLARIZATION; QUANTUM COMMUNICATION; QUANTUM COMPUTERS; QUANTUM OPTICS;

BELL-STATE MEASUREMENTS; COMPLEX OPTICAL SYSTEMS; OPTICAL QUANTUM COMPUTING; PARAMETRIC DOWN CONVERSION; POLARIZATION ENTANGLED PHOTON PAIRS; POLARIZATION ENTANGLEMENT; QUANTUM INTERFERENCE; QUANTUM-INFORMATION PROCESSING;

QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT;

EID: 4944253186     PISSN: 15337146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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