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Two photons

Nikola Šibalić, Charles S. Adams

Published Jan 1, 2024• 0 citations
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Abstract

Two photons provide us with a number of phenomena where we can expose classically non-reproducible new effects that quantum entanglement brings, all the way to the quantum gates for the optical quantum computers.
DOI
10.1088/978-0-7503-2628-5ch7

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