Operational determination of multiqubit entanglement classes via tuning of local operations

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 102, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Bastin, T ^a   Thiel, C ^b   Von Zanthier, J ^b   Lamata, L ^c,d   Solano, E ^e   Agarwal, G S ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^d INSTITUTO DE MATEMÁTICAS Y FÍSICA FUNDAMENTAL   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^f OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTANGLED STATE; EXPERIMENTAL PARAMETERS; GREENBERGER-HORNE- ZEILINGER; GROUND LEVELS; LOCAL OPERATIONS; PHOTON EMITTERS; W STATE;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 60749088664     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.053601     Document Type: Article

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