New results on entangled translucent eavesdropping in quantum cryptography

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3076, Issue , 1997, Pages 12-28

  Brandt, Howard E ^a   Myers, John M ^b   Lomonaco Jr , Samuel J ^c  

^a U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

Entangled translucent eavesdropping; Key distribution; Positive operator valued measure; Quantum cryptography; Quantum information processing; Quantum optics

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRAIC EXPRESSIONS; ALL-OPTICAL; CLOSED FORMS; ENTANGLED TRANSLUCENT EAVESDROPPING; ERROR RATES; KEY DISTRIBUTION; KEY GENERATIONS; MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS; MEASUREMENT PROCESS; MUTUAL INFORMATIONS; NEW DESIGNS; NEW RESULTS; PHOTON POLARIZATIONS; POLARIZATION ROTATORS; POLARIZATION STATE; POSITIVE OPERATOR VALUED MEASURE; PROJECTIVE MEASUREMENTS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTUM INFORMATION PROCESSING; RECEIVER ERRORS; TWO BEAMS; WOLLASTON PRISMS;

CRYPTOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTONS; POLARIZATION; PRISMS; QUANTUM COMPUTERS; QUANTUM OPTICS; QUANTUM THEORY; SECURITY SYSTEMS;

QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY;

EID: 3643066985     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.277651     Document Type: Conference Paper

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