Equiangular spherical codes in quantum cryptography

Quantum Information and Computation

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 81-92

  Renes, Joseph M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Quantum Cryptography; Quantum Key Distribution; Spherical Codes

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); SPHERES;

CHANNEL NOISE; FIXED NUMBERS; KEY GENERATION RATE; MUTUALLY UNBIASED BASIS; NOISE TOLERANCE; QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION PROTOCOLS; SIGNAL STATE; SPHERICAL CODES;

QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY;

EID: 14844284604     PISSN: 15337146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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