High-fidelity transmission of entanglement over a high-loss free-space channel

Nature Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 389-392

  Fedrizzi, Alessandro ^a   Ursin, Rupert ^a   Herbst, Thomas ^a   Nespoli, Matteo ^a   Prevedel, Robert ^a,b   Scheidl, Thomas ^a   Tiefenbacher, Felix ^a   Jennewein, Thomas ^a   Zeilinger, Anton ^a,b  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOTONS; QUANTUM COMMUNICATION; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ATMOSPHERIC EFFECTS; CLASSICAL PHYSICS; CLAUSER-HORNE-SHIMONY-HOLT INEQUALITY; ENTANGLED PHOTON PAIRS; ENTANGLED STATE; SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS; STANDARD DEVIATION; TWO PHOTON STATE;

QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT;

EID: 67650248700     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1255     Document Type: Article

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