Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Using photonic entanglement in quantum measurements

Geoff J. Pryde, Jeremy L. O’Brien, Andrew G. White, Timothy C. Ralph, Stephen D. Bartlett, Nathan K. Langford

Published Jan 1, 2005• 0 citations

Abstract

The use of entanglement allows a wide variety of quantum measurements outside the usual case of projective measurement. We describe several experimental photonic quantum measurement results relying on entangled measurement, such as weak measurements.

DOI: 10.1109/iqec.2005.1561114

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