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Routing one photon with a few others

I. S. Osborne

Published Aug 21, 2014• 0 citations
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Quantum Optics
Single particles of light, photons, are ideal carriers of quantum information because they can travel far and fast and don't interact much with each other. However, this behavior has hampered attempts to control the propagation of single photons using all-optical setups. Shomroni et
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10.1126/science.345.6199.886-c

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