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Frontiers in Optics

Quantum Random Walks with Multiple Photons

Robert Cross, Bryan Gard, Petr M. Anisimov, Jonathan P. Dowling

Published Jan 1, 2011• 0 citations
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Abstract

We show that there are interesting and unpublished aspects to higher level photonic random walks with multiple walkers. We also investigate G1, G2 and G3 coincidence detection to find multi-photon correlations in these random walks.
DOI
10.1364/fio.2011.jtua20

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