One-time pads cannot be used to improve the efficiency of quantum communication

Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics

Volumn 365, Issue 5-6, 2007, Pages 386-388

  Gao, Fei ^a,b   Qin, Su Juan ^a   Wen, Qiao Yan ^a   Zhu, Fu Chen ^c  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NATIONAL LABORATORY FOR MODERN COMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

One time pad; Quantum cryptography; Quantum key distribution; Quantum secure direct communication

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; QUANTUM COMMUNICATION; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY;

KEY BITS; ONE TIME PADS; QUANTUM SECURE DIRECT COMMUNICATION;

QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY;

EID: 34247397093     PISSN: 03759601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physleta.2007.01.047     Document Type: Article

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