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Entangled light beams from four-wave mixing carry spatial information

Johanna L. Miller

Published Jul 31, 2008• 1 citation
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Abstract

Not only do the beams display correlations in their quantum fluctuations, but so do different parts of them when examined separately.
DOI
10.1063/1.2970202

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