Entanglement with negative Wigner function of almost 3,000 atoms heralded by one photon
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McConnell, R., Zhang, H., Hu, J., Ćuk, S., & Vuletić, V. (2015). Entanglement with negative Wigner function of almost 3,000 atoms heralded by one photon. Nature, 519(7544), 439–442.

Authors 5
  1. Robert McConnell (first)
  2. Hao Zhang (additional)
  3. Jiazhong Hu (additional)
  4. Senka Ćuk (additional)
  5. Vladan Vuletić (additional)
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@article{McConnell_2015, title={Entanglement with negative Wigner function of almost 3,000 atoms heralded by one photon}, volume={519}, ISSN={1476-4687}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature14293}, DOI={10.1038/nature14293}, number={7544}, journal={Nature}, publisher={Springer Science and Business Media LLC}, author={McConnell, Robert and Zhang, Hao and Hu, Jiazhong and Ćuk, Senka and Vuletić, Vladan}, year={2015}, month=mar, pages={439–442} }