Experimental investigation of the entanglement-assisted entropic uncertainty principle

Nature Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 752-756

  Li, Chuan Feng ^a   Xu, Jin Shi ^a   Xu, Xiao Ye ^a   Li, Ke ^b   Guo, Guang Can ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

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EID: 80053590918     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys2047     Document Type: Article

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