Quantum storage of photonic entanglement in a crystal

Nature

Volumn 469, Issue 7331, 2011, Pages 508-512

  Clausen, Christoph ^a   Usmani, Imam ^a   Bussiéres, Félix ^a   Sangouard, Nicolas ^a   Afzelius, Mikael ^a   De Riedmatten, Hugues ^a,b,c   Gisin, Nicolas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b ICFO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES   (Spain)

^c INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LITHIUM; THULIUM;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MAPPING; QUANTUM MECHANICS; TELECOMMUNICATION; WAVELENGTH;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL; DEVICE; ENERGY; EXCITATION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SOLID STATE; STORAGE; TELECOMMUNICATION;

EID: 79251567872     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09662     Document Type: Article

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