"splitter" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is typically used as a noun to refer to a person or thing that divides something into two or more parts. For example, "The gardeners brought a splitter to divide the log into smaller pieces."
Chaucer was a splitter, and even Shakespeare had a go.
You do not need to accept Mr Fernandez-Armesto's greenish gospel to be fascinated by this sweepingly confident world history which gives geography back its place.A HISTORY IN FRAGMENTS: EUROPE IN THE 20TH CENTURY.By Richard Vinen.Little, Brown; 736 pages; £25AS THE title of his book suggests, Richard Vinen, a French specialist, is a splitter.
Ben-Gurion was a serial splitter.
If the total number of oscillations of the two waves during their separate paths add up to be an integral number just after recombining on the partially reflecting surface of the beam splitter, the light from the two beams will add constructively and be directed toward a detector.
With the development of Fourier-transform spectrometers, this distinction of areas has blurred and the more sophisticated instruments can cover from 10 to 25,000 cm−1 by an interchange of source, beam splitter, detector, and sample cell.
The beam splitter functions to divide the source signal into two parts for the formation of an interference pattern.
It is for this reason that you need a device, such as Dr Shields's, which can detect and count individual photons as they come out of different parts of the beam-splitter.
Since B and C have the same quantum states, that means C also has the same quantum state as A. If A and B are different, they will come out of the beam-splitter in one of three different places, depending on exactly which way they are different.
The information from the beam-splitter is then transmitted separately to the recipient, so that he knows whether to accept C unaltered as part of the message, or apply one of three mathematical transformations to it, to arrive at the right result (this does not compromise secrecy, since any eavesdropper will not know what the transformation needs to be applied to).
The two parts are arranged so that when they return to the beam-splitter, the peaks of one wave are in step with the troughs of the other.
In Dr Zeilinger's set-up, published this week in Nature, Kirk and A are both shone at a beam-splitter, a procedure that entangles the two.
