Experimental demonstration of a heralded entanglement source

Nature Photonics

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 549-552

  Wagenknecht, Claudia ^a   Li, Che Ming ^a,b   Reingruber, Andreas ^a   Bao, Xiao Hui ^a,c   Goebel, Alexander ^a   Chen, Yu Ao ^a,c   Zhang, Qiang ^a   Chen, Kai ^c   Pan, Jian Wei ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL OVERHEADS; EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATIONS; OPTICAL QUANTUM COMPUTING; POLARIZATION ENTANGLED PHOTON PAIRS; QUANTUM INFORMATION; QUANTUM-INFORMATION PROCESSING; SPONTANEOUS PARAMETRIC DOWN-CONVERSION; TRANSMISSION RATIOS;

PHOTONS;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 77955200828     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2010.123     Document Type: Article

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