Unconditional security of single-photon differential phase shift quantum key distribution

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 103, Issue 17, 2009, Pages

  Wen, Kai ^a   Tamaki, Kiyoshi ^b,c   Yamamoto, Yoshihisa ^a,d  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NTT Basic Research Laboratories   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT STATE; DIFFERENTIAL-PHASE-SHIFT QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTIONS; PHASE ERROR; UNCONDITIONAL SECURITY; UPPER BOUND;

DYNAMIC POSITIONING; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; NETWORK SECURITY; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHASE SHIFT; PHOTONS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY; QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT;

BIT ERROR RATE;

EID: 70350397921     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.170503     Document Type: Article

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