Quantum optical coherence can survive photon losses using a continuous-variable quantum erasure-correcting code

Nature Photonics

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 700-705

  Lassen, Mikael ^a,b   Sabuncu, Metin ^a,b   Huck, Alexander ^a   Niset, Julien ^c,d   Leuchs, Gerd ^b,e   Cerf, Nicolas J ^c   Andersen, Ulrik L ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE SCIENCE OF LIGHT   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^d CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS VARIABLES; DEVASTATING EFFECTS; ERROR CORRECTING CODE; EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATIONS; MESOSCOPIC STATE; QUANTUM ERROR CORRECTING CODES; QUANTUM INFORMATION SYSTEMS; QUANTUM-INFORMATION PROCESSING;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; PHOTONS; QUANTUM COMMUNICATION; QUANTUM COMPUTERS; QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 77957569446     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2010.168     Document Type: Article

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