Anderson localization of entangled photons in an integrated quantum walk

Nature Photonics

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 322-328

  Crespi, Andrea ^a,b   Osellame, Roberto ^a,b   Ramponi, Roberta ^a,b   Giovannetti, Vittorio ^c   Fazio, Rosario ^c,d   Sansoni, Linda ^e   De Nicola, Francesco ^e   Sciarrino, Fabio ^e,f   Mataloni, Paolo ^e,f  

^a IFN CNR   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^c ISTITUTO NANOSCIENZE CNR   (Italy)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^e SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^f ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OTTICA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDERSON LOCALIZATION; CONTROLLED PHASE SHIFT; DESTRUCTIVE INTERFERENCE; DISORDERED LATTICES; FEMTOSECOND LASER WRITING; POLARIZATION ENTANGLEMENT; POLARIZATION-ENTANGLED PHOTONS; QUANTUM SIMULATIONS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; PHOTONS; POLARIZATION; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT;

EID: 84875807755     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2013.26     Document Type: Article

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