Quantum key distillation from gaussian states by gaussian operations

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2005, Pages

  Navascues M ^a   Bae, J ^a   Cirac, J I ^b   Lewestein, M ^a,c   Sanpera, A ^a,c   Acin A ^a  

^a ICFO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES   (Spain)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^c LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN OPERATIONS; LOCAL OPERATION AND CLASSICAL COMMUNICATION (LOCC); QUANTUM INFORMATION THEORY (QIT); QUANTUM KEY DISTILLATION;

ENTROPY; ERROR DETECTION; FUNCTIONS; INFORMATION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PROBABILITY; VECTORS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 18144394385     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.010502     Document Type: Article

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