General relativistic effects in quantum interference of photons

Classical and Quantum Gravity

Volumn 29, Issue 22, 2012, Pages

  Zych, Magdalena ^a   Costa, Fabio ^a   Pikovski, Igor ^a   Ralph, Timothy C ^b   Brukner, Časlav ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

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EID: 84867692121     PISSN: 02649381     EISSN: 13616382     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0264-9381/29/22/224010     Document Type: Article

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