Event-by-event simulation of a quantum eraser experiment

Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1771-1782

  Jin, F ^a   Zhao, S ^a   Yuan, S ^b   De Raedt, H ^a   Michielsen, K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computational techniques; Event by Event simulation; Quantum eraser

Indexed keywords

CLASSICAL PARTICLE; COMPUTATIONAL TECHNIQUE; COMPUTER SIMULATION MODEL; EVENT SIMULATION; LOCAL CAUSALITY; QUANTUM ERASER; QUANTUM ERASERS; SIMULATION MODEL; WAVE-PARTICLE DUALITY;

EXPERIMENTS; PHOTONS; WAVE EQUATIONS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 77955684231     PISSN: 15461955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1166/jctn.2010.1542     Document Type: Article

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