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The Rochester Conferences on Coherence and Quantum Optics and the Quantum Information and Measurement meeting

Direct measure of the Schmidt number of biphotons

Felix Just, Andrea Cavanna, Maria V. Chekhova, Gerd Leuchs

Published Jan 1, 2013• 0 citations
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Abstract

We implement a method to assess the transverse entanglement of biphotons in both modulus and phase of the quantum state. This is achieved by an interferometric measurement of the Schmidt number which is a universal quantifier for entanglement.
DOI
10.1364/cqo.2013.m6.17

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