Experimental entanglement distillation of mesoscopic quantum states

Nature Physics

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 919-923

  Dong, Ruifang ^a   Lassen, Mikael ^a,b   Heersink, Joel ^a   Marquardt, Christoph ^a   Filip, Radim ^a,c   Leuchs, Gerd ^a   Andersen, Ulrik L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTILLATION; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); LIGHT; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; QUANTUM COMMUNICATION; QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY;

CLASSICAL COMMUNICATION; CONTINUOUS VARIABLES; ENTANGLED STATE; ENTANGLEMENT DISTILLATION; LINEAR OPTICAL; LOSSY CHANNEL; NON-GAUSSIAN NOISE; OPTICAL CHANNELS;

QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT;

EID: 57049188816     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1112     Document Type: Article

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