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Jumping to hyperentanglement

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A state-of-the-art source of hyperentangled photon pairs has been built and its quantum properties fully characterized.

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Pfister, O. Jumping to hyperentanglement. Nature Photon 9, 483–485 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2015.131

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