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arXiv:1402.0404 · Nature Photonics

A generalization of the entropy power inequality to bosonic quantum systems

Giacomo De Palma, Andrea Mari, Vittorio Giovannetti

Published Oct 31, 2014• 53 citations
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10.1038/nphoton.2014.252

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