Quantum cryptography with 3-state systems

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 15, 2000, Pages 3313-3316

  Bechmann Pasquinucci, Helle ^a   Peres, Asher ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CRYPTOGRAPHY; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ERROR CORRECTION; ERROR DETECTION; ERRORS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; PHOTONS; PROBABILITY; SECURITY OF DATA; VECTORS;

BOB ERROR RATE; INTERCEPT AND RESEND EAVESDROPPING; QUANTUM CARRIERS; QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY; THREE STATE SYSTEMS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

INFORMATION SCIENCE; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; QUANTUM THEORY;

COMMUNICATION; INFORMATION THEORY; QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0034300254     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.3313     Document Type: Article

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