Probing the Negative Wigner Function of a Pulsed Single Photon Point by Point
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Probing the negative Wigner function of a pulsed single photon point by point.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review Letters
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0031-9007,1079-7114
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.105.253603