Beating the photon-number-splitting attack in practical quantum cryptography

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 23, 2005, Pages

  Wang, Xiang Bin ^a  

^a JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MULTIPHOTON PULSES; PHOTON-NUMBER-SPLITTING;

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); LASER PULSES; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PHOTONS;

QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY;

EID: 27744568650     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.230503     Document Type: Article

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