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Frontiers in Optics

Photonic Quantum Measurements for Metrology and Entanglement Verification

Geoff J. Pryde

Published Jan 1, 2011• 0 citations
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Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate how adaptive measurement and readily-available entangled states can beat the standard limit in ab initio phase measurement, and how increasing measurement settings in EPR-steering inequality violations allows closure of the detection loophole.
DOI
10.1364/ls.2011.ltui3

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