Bidirectional quantum key distribution protocol with practical faint laser pulses

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2004, Pages

  Deng, Fu Guo ^a,b   Long, Gui Lu ^a,b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Key Lab for Quant Info/Msrmt   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY NUMBERS; QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION (QKD); QUANTUM OPERATIONS; QUANTUM SIGNALS;

ATTENUATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; LASER PULSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MEASUREMENT THEORY; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; PROBABILITY; SIGNAL ENCODING;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 69649108393     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.70.012311     Document Type: Review

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