Experimental demonstration of a BDCZ quantum repeater node

Nature

Volumn 454, Issue 7208, 2008, Pages 1098-1101

  Yuan, Zhen Sheng ^a,b   Chen, Yu Ao ^a,b   Zhao, Bo ^a   Chen, Shuai ^a   Schmiedmayer, Jörg ^c   Pan, Jian Wei ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

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

^c TU WIEN   (Austria)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

QUANTUM DOT;

COMMUNICATION NETWORK; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

ARTICLE; ATOM; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY;

EID: 50649112799     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07241     Document Type: Article

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