Sustained quantum coherence and entanglement in the avian compass

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 106, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Gauger, Erik M ^a   Rieper, Elisabeth ^b   Morton, John J L ^a   Benjamin, Simon C ^a,b   Vedral, Vlatko ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL SYSTEMS; CRYOGENIC TEMPERATURES; EARTH'S MAGNETIC FIELD; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION; LIVING SYSTEMS; MIGRATORY BIRDS; MOLECULAR SYSTEMS; QUANTUM COHERENCE; QUANTUM INFORMATION THEORY; QUANTUM PHENOMENA; QUANTUM SUPERPOSITIONS; RADICAL PAIR;

INFORMATION THEORY; MAGNETIC FIELDS; QUANTUM OPTICS;

QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT;

EID: 79251508026     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.040503     Document Type: Article

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