Violation of the Leggett-garg inequality with weak measurements of photons

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1256-1261

  Goggin, M E ^a,b   Almeida, M P ^a   Barbieri, M ^a,c   Lanyon, B P ^a   O'Brien, J L ^d   White, A G ^a   Pryde, G J ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b TRUMAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUT D'OPTIQUE GRADUATE SCHOOL   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^e GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Entanglement; Quantum communication; Quantum measurement; Quantum nonlocality

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; LEGGETT GARG INEQUALITY; PARAMETERS OF MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS; PHOTON; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM YIELD;

ALGORITHMS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHOTONS; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 79952166230     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1005774108     Document Type: Article

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