Observation of strongly entangled photon pairs from a nanowire quantum dot

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Versteegh, Marijn A M ^a   Reimer, Michael E ^a   Jöns, Klaus D ^a   Dalacu, Dan ^b   Poole, Philip J ^b   Gulinatti, Angelo ^c   Giudice, Andrea ^d   Zwiller, Val ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^c POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^d Micro Photon Devices   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOWIRE; QUANTUM DOT;

ELECTRON; NANOTECHNOLOGY; QUANTUM MECHANICS; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ARTICLE; BIREFRINGENCE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PHOTON; POLARIZATION;

EID: 84915822844     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6298     Document Type: Article

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