Correlations, indistinguishability and entanglement in Hong-Ou-Mandel experiments at microwave frequencies

Nature Physics

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 345-348

  Lang, C ^a   Eichler, C ^a   Steffen, L ^a   Fink, J M ^a,c   Woolley, M J ^b,d   Blais, A ^b   Wallraff, A ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d University of New South Wales (Canberra Campus)   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; MICROWAVE FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PRISMS; QUANTUM COMMUNICATION;

AMPLITUDE DETECTION; CONTROLLABLE DELAYS; CROSS AND AUTO CORRELATION; INDISTINGUISHABILITY; PHOTON NUMBERS; SINGLE-PHOTON SOURCE; TWO-MODE ENTANGLEMENT; TWO-PHOTON INTERFERENCE;

PHOTONS;

EID: 84878581694     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys2612     Document Type: Article

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