Generation and distillation of non-Gaussian entanglement from nonclassical photon statistics

Quantum Information Processing

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 873-885

  Ivan, J Solomon ^a   Mukunda, N ^b   Simon, R ^b  

^a RAMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Beam splitter; Distillation of entanglement; Non Gaussian entanglement; Partial transpose; Photon number distribution

Indexed keywords

MIXED STATE; NON-GAUSSIAN; NONCLASSICAL PHOTON STATISTICS; PARTIAL TRANSPOSE; PHOTON-NUMBER DISTRIBUTION; THREE-TERM; TWO-MODE STATE;

DISTILLATION; INFORMATION THEORY; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; PRISMS;

GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC);

EID: 84861092302     PISSN: 15700755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11128-011-0316-0     Document Type: Article

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