Entanglement-enhanced detection of single-photon scattering events

Nature Photonics

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 630-633

  Hempel, C ^a,b   Lanyon, B P ^a   Jurcevic, P ^a,b   Gerritsma, R ^a,c   Blatt, R ^a,b   Roos, C F ^a,b  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^c JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTANGLED STATE; HIGH SENSITIVITY; PHOTON SCATTERING; QUANTUM-INFORMATION PROCESSING; SCATTERING EVENTS; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; SINGLE PHOTONS; SINGLE-PARTICLE;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONS;

IONS;

EID: 84881160335     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2013.172     Document Type: Article

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