Improved one-way rates for BB84 and 6-state protocos

Quantum Information and Computation

Volumn 8, Issue 8-9, 2008, Pages 0756-0772

  Kern, Oliver ^a   Renes, Joseph M ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Communicated by: H K Lo; H Zbinden

Indexed keywords

RANDOM PROCESSES;

BB84 PROTOCOL; BLOCK LENGTHS; COMMUNICATED BY: H-K LO; H ZBINDEN; LOWER BOUNDS; PHYSICAL REVIEW; PREPROCESSING SCHEME; QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION PROTOCOLS;

QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY;

EID: 64149088358     PISSN: 15337146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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