Heralded noiseless amplification of a photon polarization qubit

Nature Physics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 23-28

  Kocsis, S ^a,b   Xiang, G Y ^b,c   Ralph, T C ^a,d   Pryde, G J ^a,b  

^a Griffith University   (Australia)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONS; POLARIZATION; QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY; QUANTUM OPTICS; QUBITS;

ABSORPTION AND SCATTERINGS; COMMUNICATION DISTANCE; NOISELESS AMPLIFICATIONS; OF QUANTUM-INFORMATION; QUANTUM INFORMATION CARRIERS; QUANTUM INFORMATION SCIENCE; SIGNAL AMPLIFICATIONS; TRANSMISSION CHANNELS;

QUANTUM COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84871556309     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys2469     Document Type: Article

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