Experimental non-classicality of an indivisible quantum system

Nature

Volumn 474, Issue 7352, 2011, Pages 490-493

  Lapkiewicz, Radek ^a,b   Li, Peizhe ^a   Schaeff, Christoph ^a,b   Langford, Nathan K ^a,b,c,d   Ramelow, Sven ^a,b   Wieśniak, Marcin ^a,c,d   Zeilinger, Anton ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GDA SK   (Poland)

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MEASUREMENT METHOD; PROBABILITY; QUANTUM MECHANICS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHOTON; PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; QUANTUM MECHANICS; QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 79959540014     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature10119     Document Type: Article

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