Experimental violation of the Leggett-Garg inequality under decoherence

Scientific Reports

Volumn 1, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Xu, Jin Shi ^a   Li, Chuan Feng ^a   Zou, Xu Bo ^a   Guo, Guang Can ^a  

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

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EID: 84859770231     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep00101     Document Type: Article

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