Observation of eight-photon entanglement

Nature Photonics

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 225-228

  Yao, Xing Can ^a   Wang, Tian Xiong ^a   Xu, Ping ^a   Lu, He ^a   Pan, Ge Sheng ^a   Bao, Xiao Hui ^a   Peng, Cheng Zhi ^a   Lu, Chao Yang ^a   Chen, Yu Ao ^a   Pan, Jian Wei ^a  

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

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EID: 84862777068     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2011.354     Document Type: Article

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