Creation, storage, and on-demand release of optical quantum states with a negative wigner function

Physical Review X

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Yoshikawa, Jun ichi ^a   Makino, Kenzo ^a   Kurata, Shintaro ^a   van Loock, Peter ^b   Furusawa, Akira ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED RELEASE; HERALDED SINGLE PHOTONS; INTRINSIC RANDOMNESS; NONCLASSICAL STATE; NONLINEAR OPTICAL INTERACTIONS; QUANTUM-INFORMATION PROCESSING; SINGLE PHOTON STATE; SINGLE-PHOTON SOURCE;

DATA PROCESSING; ELEMENTARY PARTICLE SOURCES; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONS; WAVE FUNCTIONS; WIGNER-VILLE DISTRIBUTION;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 84892907418     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21603308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.3.041028     Document Type: Article

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