Loophole-free Bell inequality violation using electron spins separated by 1.3 kilometres

Nature

Volumn 526, Issue 7575, 2015, Pages 682-686

  Hensen, B ^a,b   Bernien, H ^a,b   Dreau A E ^a,b   Reiserer, A ^a,b   Kalb, N ^a,b   Blok, M S ^a,b   Ruitenberg, J ^a,b   Vermeulen, R F L ^a,b   Schouten, R N ^a,b   Abellan C ^c   Amaya, W ^c   Pruneri, V ^c,d   Mitchell, M W ^c,d   Markham, M ^e   Twitchen, D J ^e,f   Elkouss, D ^a   Wehner, S ^a   Taminiau, T H ^a,b   Hanson, R ^a,b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c BARCELONA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Spain)

^d INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^e Element Six Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^f HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; CERTIFICATION; ELECTRON SPIN; EXCITATION; GENERATOR; LOOPHOLE FREE BELL INEQUALITY VIOLATION; MEMORY; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 84945553079     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature15759     Document Type: Article

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