Experimental four-qubit bound entanglement

Nature Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 748-752

  Amselem, Elias ^a   Bourennane, Mohamed ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUANTUM OPTICS; QUBITS;

BOUND ENTANGLED STATE; BOUND ENTANGLEMENT; CLASSICAL COMMUNICATION; ENTANGLEMENT PROPERTIES; EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATIONS; MULTI-PARTY COMMUNICATION; OF QUANTUM-INFORMATION; SPECIAL PROPERTIES;

QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT;

EID: 70349884249     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1372     Document Type: Article

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