Unconditional security of a three state quantum key distribution protocol

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2005, Pages

  Boileau, J C ^a   Tamaki, K ^b   Batuwantudawe, J ^a   Laflamme, R ^a,b   Renes, J M ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b PERIMETER INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTANGLEMENT DISTILLATION PROTOCOL (EDP); QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION (QKD); QUANTUM STATES; THREE-STATE PROTOCOLS;

AMPLIFICATION; BIT ERROR RATE; CODES (SYMBOLS); CORRELATION METHODS; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; PHOTONS; PROBABILITY; QUANTUM THEORY; RANDOM PROCESSES;

QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY;

EID: 18044391678     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.040503     Document Type: Article

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