Realization of quantum Wheeler's delayed-choice experiment

Nature Photonics

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 600-604

  Tang, Jian Shun ^a   Li, Yu Long ^a   Xu, Xiao Ye ^a   Xiang, Guo Yong ^a   Li, Chuan Feng ^a   Guo, Guang Can ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETECTING DEVICES; PARTICLE STATE; QUANTUM INTERFERENCE; QUANTUM STATE; SINGLE PHOTONS; SUPERPOSITION PRINCIPLE; SUPERPOSITION STATE; WAVE-PARTICLE DUALITY;

EXPERIMENTS; PARTICLE BEAMS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 84866371329     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2012.179     Document Type: Article

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