Experimental high-dimensional two-photon entanglement and violations of generalized Bell inequalities

Nature Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 677-680

  Dada, Adetunmise C ^a   Leach, Jonathan ^b   Buller, Gerald S ^a   Padgett, Miles J ^b   Andersson, Erika ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BELLS; CODING ERRORS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM OPTICS;

DIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS; HIGHER-DIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS; INFORMATION DENSITY; OF QUANTUM-INFORMATION; ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM; QUANTUM INFORMATION; SPONTANEOUS PARAMETRIC DOWN CONVERSION; TWO-DIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS;

QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT;

EID: 80052477257     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1996     Document Type: Article

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