Photon energy entanglement characterization by electronic transition interference

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 23, 2009, Pages 21280-21288

  Hayat, Alex ^a   Ginzburg, Pavel ^a   Orenstein, Meir ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; QUANTUM COMPUTERS; QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; TWO PHOTON PROCESSES;

BELL STATE; BELL-INEQUALITY VIOLATIONS; ELECTRONIC TRANSITION; PHOTON ENERGY; SUPERPOSITION STATE; TWO PHOTON ABSORPTION; TWO-LEVEL SYSTEM;

PHOTONS;

EID: 70749153597     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.021280     Document Type: Article

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