Simple protocol for secure decoy-state quantum key distribution with a loosely controlled source

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Wang, Xiang Bin ^a   Peng, Cheng Zhi ^a,b,c   Pan, Jian Wei ^a,b,c,d  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; ERROR DETECTION; LIGHT PULSE GENERATORS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

DECOY PULSES; FLUCTUATION; SIGNAL PULSES; TWO-VALUE ATTENUATION;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 33846431595     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2431718     Document Type: Article

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