Entanglement-enhanced probing of a delicate material system

Nature Photonics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 28-32

  Wolfgramm, Florian ^a   Vitelli, Chiara ^b   Beduini, Federica A ^a   Godbout, Nicolas ^c   Mitchell, Morgan W ^a,d  

^a ICFO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES   (Spain)

^b ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^c ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^d INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH SENSITIVITY; MATERIAL SYSTEMS; PROBE ENERGY; QUANTUM EFFECTS; QUANTUM METROLOGY; SINGLE MOLECULE; STANDARD DEVIATION; STANDARD QUANTUM LIMITS;

ATOMS; MATERIALS SCIENCE; PROBES; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS;

QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT;

EID: 84872003921     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2012.300     Document Type: Article

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