Nonmonotonic quantum-to-classical transition in multiparticle interference

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1227-1231

  Ra, Young Sik ^a   Tichy, Malte C ^b,c   Lim, Hyang Tag ^a   Kwon, Osung ^a   Mintert, Florian ^b   Buchleitner, Andreas ^b   Kim, Yoon Ho ^a  

^a Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORRELATION FUNCTION; INTERFEROMETER; MULTIPARTICLE INTERFERENCE; PHOTON; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; QUANTUM MECHANICS; QUANTUM TO CLASSICAL TRANSITION;

EID: 84872835474     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1206910110     Document Type: Article

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