Experimental demonstration of quantum contextuality with nonentangled photons

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Liu, B H ^a   Huang, Y F ^a   Gong, Y X ^a   Sun, F W ^a   Zhang, Y S ^a   Li, C F ^a   Guo, G C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTEXTUALITY; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; QUANTUM INTERFERENCE EFFECTS; TWO PHOTON; VARIABLE THEORY;

QUANTUM INTERFERENCE DEVICES;

PHOTONS;

EID: 70349929453     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.80.044101     Document Type: Article

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