Experimental Detection of Multipartite Entanglement using Witness Operators

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 8, 2004, Pages

  Bourennane, Mohamed ^a,b   Eibl, Manfred ^a,b   Kurtsiefer, Christian ^b   Gaertner, Sascha ^a,b   Weinfurter, Harald ^a,b   Gühne, Otfried ^c   Hyllus, Philipp ^c   Bruß, Dagmar ^c   Lewenstein, Maciej ^c   Sanpera, Anna ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; POLARIZATION; PROBABILITY; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

EXPECTATION VALUES; QUANTUM SYSTEMS; WITNESS OPERATORS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 5444274116     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.087902     Document Type: Article

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