On-chip generation of high-order single-photon W-states

Nature Photonics

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 791-795

  Gräfe, Markus ^a   Heilmann, René ^a   Perez Leija, Armando ^a   Keil, Robert ^a,b   Dreisow, Felix ^a   Heinrich, Matthias ^a,c   Moya Cessa, Hector ^d   Nolte, Stefan ^a   Christodoulides, Demetrios N ^c   Szameit, Alexander ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^d INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE ASTROFÍSICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); LIGHT; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT; QUANTUM OPTICS; RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION;

COHERENCE PROPERTIES; DEGREE OF FREEDOM; OF QUANTUM-INFORMATION; ON-CHIP GENERATION; PHYSICAL SYSTEMS; QUANTUM SUPERPOSITIONS; RANDOM NUMBERS; UNIFORM DISTRIBUTION;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 85027926411     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2014.204     Document Type: Article

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