Unconditional security proof of long-distance continuous-variable quantum key distribution with discrete modulation

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 102, Issue 18, 2009, Pages

  Leverrier, Anthony ^a   Grangier, Philippe ^b  

^a INSTITUT TELECOM   (France)

^b INSTITUT D'OPTIQUE GRADUATE SCHOOL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS VARIABLES; LONG DISTANCES; LOW SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIOS; QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION PROTOCOLS; QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTIONS; SECRET KEYS; UNCONDITIONAL SECURITIES;

MODULATION; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY;

EID: 65549128745     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.180504     Document Type: Article

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