ancilla

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Each signal sent out is entangled with an ancilla, which is retained.

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  • Each signal sent out is entangled with an ancilla, which is retained. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Detection takes place via an entangling measurement on the returning signal together with the ancilla. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • We elaborate on these ideas and recapitulate two approaches to implement many body gates necessary for quantum information processing, both relying on controlled interactions of an ancillary cavity mode with the spin system and single ancilla particles. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • The characters consist of Iphidius, father of Pyramus; Labetrus, father of Thisbe; their children, the protagonists; their respective servants, Straton and Clitipho; and Casina, "ancilla" or handmaid to Thisbe. —  The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream'
  • I am able, Jeppe Berg, to recite the whole Aurora: ala, that's a wing; ancilla, a girl; barba, a beard; coena, a chamber-pot; cerevisia, ale; campana, a bell; cella, a cellar; lagena, a bottle; lana, a wolf; ancilla, a girl; janua, a door; cerevisia, butter JEPPE. —  Comedies by Holberg : Jeppe of the Hill, The Political Tinker, Erasmus Montanus
 

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