Delayed-choice quantum eraser with thermal light

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 112, Issue 18, 2014, Pages

  Peng, Tao ^a,b,c,d   Chen, Hui ^a,b,c,d   Shih, Yanhua ^a,b,c,d   Scully, Marlan O ^a,b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT; WAVE PACKETS;

DOUBLE-SLIT INTERFEROMETER; ENTANGLED PHOTON PAIRS; INTERFERENCE PHENOMENA; QUANTUM ERASERS; RANDOMLY DISTRIBUTED; THERMAL LIGHT; THERMAL SOURCE; TIME WINDOWS;

PHOTONS;

EID: 84899796396     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.180401     Document Type: Article

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