Observation of micro-macro entanglement of light

Nature Physics

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 541-544

  Lvovsky, A I ^a,b   Ghobadi, R ^a,c   Chandra, A ^a   Prasad, A S ^a   Simon, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY MISIS   (Russian Federation)

^c SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONS;

MACROSCOPIC OBJECTS; OPTO-MECHANICAL SYSTEMS; PHOTON-NUMBER STATISTICS; QUADRATURE MEASUREMENTS; QUANTUM FLUCTUATION; QUANTUM STATE TOMOGRAPHY; SUPERCONDUCTING CIRCUIT; THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS;

QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT;

EID: 84883743255     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys2682     Document Type: Article

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