Transport and quantum walk of nonclassical light in coupled waveguides

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Rai, Amit ^a   Agarwal, G S ^a   Perk, J H H ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; QUANTUM OPTICS; WAVEGUIDES;

ARBITRARY NUMBERS; ARRAY STRUCTURES; COUPLED WAVEGUIDES; DECOHERENCE; NONCLASSICAL LIGHT; OF QUANTUM INFORMATIONS; QUANTUM NATURES; QUANTUM REGIMES; QUANTUM WALKS; SECOND QUANTIZATIONS; TALBOT EFFECTS;

QUANTUM CHEMISTRY;

EID: 54049088222     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.78.042304     Document Type: Article

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