Fast and simple one-way quantum key distribution

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 87, Issue 19, 2005, Pages 1-3

  Stucki, Damien ^a   Brunner, Nicolas ^a   Gisin, Nicolas ^a   Scarani, Valerio ^a   Zbinden, Hugo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISTILLATION; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PHOTONS; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE;

DATALINE; KEY GENERATION RATE; QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION; WEAK COHERENT PULSES;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 27644570716     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2126792     Document Type: Article

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