Heralding two-photon and four-photon path entanglement on a chip

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 107, Issue 16, 2011, Pages

  Matthews, Jonathan C F ^a   Politi, Alberto ^a   Bonneau, Damien ^a   O'Brien, Jeremy L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSICAL LIMITS; HEISENBERG LIMIT; INTEGRATED WAVEGUIDES; MULTIPHOTON ENTANGLEMENT; PATH ENTANGLEMENT; PHOTON LOSS; PROJECTIVE MEASUREMENT; QUANTUM METROLOGY; RE-CONFIGURABLE; REALISTIC DEVICES; STATE PREPARATION; SUPER RESOLUTION; TWO PHOTON;

MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; PHOTONS;

QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT;

EID: 80053973295     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.163602     Document Type: Article

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