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arXiv:quant-ph/0606002 · The European Physical Journal D

Engineering multiphoton states for linear optics computation

Paolo Aniello, Cosmo Lupo, M. Napolitano, Matteo G. A. Paris

Published Dec 6, 2006• 3 citations
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10.1140/epjd/e2006-00259-y

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