High-efficiency multiphoton boson sampling

Nature Photonics

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 361-365

  Wang, Hui ^a,b   He, Yu ^a,b   Li, Yu Huai ^a,b   Su, Zu En ^a,b   Li, Bo ^a,b   Huang, He Liang ^a,b   Ding, Xing ^a,b   Chen, Ming Cheng ^a,b   Liu, Chang ^a,b   Qin, Jian ^a,b   Li, Jin Peng ^a,b   He, Yu Ming ^a,b,c   Schneider, Christian ^c   Kamp, Martin ^c   Peng, Cheng Zhi ^a,b   Höfling, Sven ^a,c,d   Lu, Chao Yang ^a,b   Pan, Jian Wei ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; ELEMENTARY PARTICLE SOURCES; INTERFEROMETERS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

CENTRAL COMPONENT; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; HIGH-EFFICIENCY; INDISTINGUISHABILITY; OPTICAL INTERFEROMETER; PROOF-OF-PRINCIPLE EXPERIMENTS; SINGLE-PHOTON SOURCE; TRANSMISSION RATES;

BOSONS;

EID: 85018437034     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2017.63     Document Type: Article

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