Ancilla-assisted calibration of a measuring apparatus

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 108, Issue 25, 2012, Pages

  Brida, G ^a   Ciavarella, L ^a   Degiovanni, I P ^a   Genovese, M ^a   Migdall, A ^b   Mingolla, M G ^a,c   Paris, M G A ^a,d,e   Piacentini, F ^a   Polyakov, S V ^b  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI RICERCA METROLOGICA   (Italy)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^e Udr Milano ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANCILLARY STATE; INPUT STATE; PARAMETRIC DOWN-CONVERSION; PHOTON-NUMBER-RESOLVING DETECTORS; QUANTUM CORRELATIONS; QUANTUM MEASUREMENT; QUANTUM RESOURCES; RECONSTRUCTION METHOD; TWIN BEAMS;

SENSORS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 84862572304     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.253601     Document Type: Article

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