Preparation of distilled and purified continuous-variable entangled states

Nature Physics

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 915-918

  Hage, Boris ^a   Samblowski, Aiko ^a   Diguglielmo, James ^a   Franzen, Alexander ^a   Fiurášek, Jaromír ^b   Schnabel, Roman ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COVARIANCE MATRIX; DISTILLATION; PURIFICATION; QUANTUM OPTICS;

CONTINUOUS VARIABLES; COVARIANCE MATRICES; DOWNSTREAM APPLICATIONS; ENTANGLEMENT DISTILLATION; ENTANGLEMENT SWAPPING; EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATIONS; OF QUANTUM-INFORMATION; QUANTUM TELEPORTATION;

QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT;

EID: 57049162358     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1110     Document Type: Article

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