Preparation of non-local superpositions of quasi-classical light states

Nature Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 189-192

  Ourjoumtsev, Alexei ^a,b   Ferreyrol, Franck ^a   Tualle Brouri, Rosa ^a   Grangier, Philippe ^a  

^a UNIV PARIS SUD   (France)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; PARTICLE BEAMS; QUANTUM CHANNEL; QUANTUM OPTICS; QUBITS;

COHERENT SUPERPOSITIONS; HIGH-PRECISION MEASUREMENT; LARGE AMPLITUDE; LOSSY QUANTUM CHANNEL; QUANTUM SUPERPOSITIONS; QUANTUM TELEPORTATION; QUANTUM-INFORMATION PROCESSING; SIMPLE APPROACH;

QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT;

EID: 61849170102     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1199     Document Type: Article

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