Unambiguous state discrimination in quantum cryptography with weak coherent states

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 022306-022301

  Dušek, Miloslav ^a   Jahma, Mika ^b   Lütkenhaus, Norbert ^b  

^a PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b HELSINKI INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYPTOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC ENERGY STORAGE; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PHOTONS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SECURITY OF DATA; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

BEAM SPLITTING ATTACK; QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY; QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION; UNAMBIGUOUS STATE DISCRIMINATION;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0342844378     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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