Squeezing quantum information through a classical channel: Measuring the "quantumness" of a set of quantum states

Quantum Information and Computation

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 377-404

  Fuchs, Christopher A ^a,b,e   Sasaki, Masahide ^c,d  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b TAMAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^e DUBLIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Quantum cryptography; Quantum teleportation

Indexed keywords

QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY;

CLASSICAL COMMUNICATION; GENERAL METHOD; LABORATORY DEMONSTRATIONS; QUANTUM INFORMATION; QUANTUM STATE; QUANTUM TELEPORTATION;

QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT;

EID: 0242557609     PISSN: 15337146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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