Quantum key distribution without alternative measurements

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 523121-523124

  Cabello, Adán ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

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