Nonlocal quantum macroscopic superposition in a high-thermal low-purity state

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Brezinski, Mark E ^a,b,c   Liu, Bin ^d  

^a Department of Orthopedic Surgery   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BALANCED DETECTIONS; CHIRPED SIGNALS; CLASSICAL MECHANISMS; COHERENT STATES; CONVENTIONAL EQUIPMENTS; DECOHERENCE; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGNS; FUTURE WORKS; GLASS PLATES; GLASS SURFACES; HIGH TEMPERATURES; IN FIELDS; INTERFEROGRAM; LOCAL ENTROPIES; LOW COHERENCES; LOW PURITIES; MACROSCOPIC SUPERPOSITIONS; MIXED STATES; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHIES; OTHER APPLICATIONS; PHOTON INTERFERENCES; PHOTON PRESSURES; PHYSICAL LAWS; POSITION UNCERTAINTIES; PROBABILITY AMPLITUDES; QUANTUM INFORMATIONS; QUANTUM INTERACTIONS; QUANTUM MECHANICS; QUANTUM MEMORIES; QUANTUM STATE EXCHANGES; QUANTUM TELEPORTATIONS; REFLECTIVE SURFACES; ROOM TEMPERATURES; TARGET POSITIONS;

APPLICATIONS; COHERENT LIGHT; CORRELATION METHODS; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; EXPERIMENTS; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GLASS; INFORMATION SERVICES; LIGHT; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MECHANISMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; METALLIC GLASS; PROBABILITY; QUANTUM COMPUTERS; QUANTUM OPTICS; QUANTUM THEORY; RANDOM PROCESSES; STATISTICS; TARGETS; TOMOGRAPHY;

PHOTONS;

EID: 57849167459     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.78.063824     Document Type: Article

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