• Photonics Research
  • Vol. 10, Issue 7, 1582 (2022)
Wen-Rong Qi1、2、†, Jie Zhou3、†, Ling-Jun Kong4、5、†, Zhen-Peng Xu6, Hui-Xian Meng3, Rui Liu1, Zhou-Xiang Wang1, Chenghou Tu1, Yongnan Li1、8、*, Adán Cabello7, Jing-Ling Chen3、9、*, and Hui-Tian Wang4、10、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1Key Laboratory of Weak-Light Nonlinear Photonics and School of Physics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China
  • 2School of Physics, Henan Normal University, Xinxiang 453007, China
  • 3Theoretical Physics Division, Chern Institute of Mathematics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China
  • 4National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
  • 5Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
  • 6Naturwissenschaftlich-Technische Fakultät, Universität Siegen, 57068 Siegen, Germany
  • 7Departamento de Física Aplicada II, Universidad de Sevilla, E-41012 Sevilla, Spain
  • 8e-mail: liyongnan@nankai.edu.cn
  • 9e-mail: chenjl@nankai.edu.cn
  • 10e-mail: htwang@nju.edu.cn
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    Wen-Rong Qi, Jie Zhou, Ling-Jun Kong, Zhen-Peng Xu, Hui-Xian Meng, Rui Liu, Zhou-Xiang Wang, Chenghou Tu, Yongnan Li, Adán Cabello, Jing-Ling Chen, Hui-Tian Wang. Stronger Hardy-like proof of quantum contextuality[J]. Photonics Research, 2022, 10(7): 1582 Copy Citation Text show less
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