Quantum repeaters with entangled coherent states

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Sangouard, Nicolas ^a,b   Simon, Christoph ^a,c   Gisin, Nicolas ^a   Laurat, Julien ^d   Tualle Brouri, Rosa ^e   Grangier, Philippe ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^d LABORATOIRE KASTLER BROSSEL   (France)

^e UNIV PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONS;

COHERENT STATE; CONTINUOUS VARIABLES; ENTANGLED COHERENT STATE; ENTANGLEMENT GENERATION; ENTANGLEMENT SWAPPING; LINEAR OPTICS; PHOTON COUNTERS; QUANTUM COMMUNICATION; QUANTUM MEMORIES; QUANTUM REPEATERS; QUANTUM SUPERPOSITIONS; SINGLE PHOTONS;

QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT;

EID: 77955672781     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.27.00A137     Document Type: Article

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