Generalized multiphoton quantum interference

Physical Review X

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Tillmann, Max ^a   Tan, Si Hui ^b   Stoeckl, Sarah E ^a   Sanders, Barry C ^c,d   De Guise, Hubert ^e   Heilmann, René ^f   Nolte, Stefan ^f   Szameit, Alexander ^f   Walther, Philip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b SINGAPORE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND DESIGN   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^d CANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH   (Canada)

^e LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Optics; Quantum information; Quantum physics

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT; OPTICS; PHOTONS;

DISTINGUISHABILITY; MULTIPHOTON QUANTUM; NON-CLASSICAL INTERFERENCE; OPTICAL QUANTUM-INFORMATION PROCESSING; PHOTON NUMBERS; QUANTUM INFORMATION; QUANTUM PHYSICS; TRANSITION MATRICES;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 84949682667     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21603308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.5.041015     Document Type: Article

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