Highly efficient entanglement swapping and teleportation at telecom wavelength

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Jin, Rui Bo ^a   Takeoka, Masahiro ^a   Takagi, Utako ^a,b   Shimizu, Ryosuke ^c   Sasaki, Masahide ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

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EID: 84925355517     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep09333     Document Type: Article

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